Wellington SQL Server PASS User Group Meeting

Thursday, 18th March 2010 – 6pm
(pizza and drinks from 5.30pm)

Intergen L7 Plunket House, 126 Lambton Quay
(Lifts lock at 17:30. If you're late and there's nobody around to swipe you up, contact Adrian on 027 435 4050.)

Introduction to Powershell for SQL Server DBA’s

Jeremy Boyd of Mindscape

Windows PowerShell is an extensible command-line shell and associated scripting language built on top of the .NET Framework. For DBA's PowerShell offers scripting capabilities to easily automate tasks across many instances, combine their SQL tasks with non SQL ones and provide an alternate way to configure and manage SQL instances.  

We will walk through a basic overview of how PowerShell works, how you can leverage it to achieve these tasks and how you can tap into the wide community of other sys admins and DBA's who use PowerShell to make their day to day much easier.

Since 2003, Jeremy (JB) has played a key role within the New Zealand Microsoft development community, helping develop and grow the role of community reach, and later taking on the role of Microsoft Regional Director which he currently is active in.

Jeremy believes in taking a direct and focused approach to software development, aiming for the critical path and seeing technology as a key enabler towards better efficiency in business. A geek since a young age, Jeremy has a keen eye for opportunities to solve real world problems using software – a skill he has continually applied within the IT field itself, building a number of end user products which help solve specialist problems for technical professionals.