excuse reason or another, keep postponing their exposure to the next generation command line shell. This volume makes a good first PowerShell book for DBAs. It covers the basics of the language with enough examples to get you going and good coverage of what is possible when combined with MS SQL 2008.
The first ten chapters go over specifics of the language, programming syntax, and how to interact with different areas of the operating system. The following eleven chapters demonstrate with code samples, how integrated are MS SQL 2008 and PowerShell. I have found that many of the examples in this book also apply to MS SQL 2005. My favorite chapter is 15 “Building SQL Server Inventory” because the authors provide a working solution to a common problems DBA have when managing many database servers.
To those DBAs who still have not jumped in, do yourself a favor and read this book.
