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Microsoft SQL Server is used by millions of businesses, ranging in size from Fortune 500s to small shops worldwide. Whether you’re just getting started as a DBA, supporting a SQL Server-driven application, or you’ve been drafted by your office as the SQL Server admin, you do not need a thousand-page book to get up and running.

Packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you’re learning, Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking. Just set aside one hour a day – lunchtime would be perfect – for each self-contained lesson. You’ll move quickly through core scripting concepts and start working on four real-world, practical tools. Each chapter adds more functionality, including custom formatting, error handling, parameterized input, input validation, help files and documentation, and more.

PowerShell is both a language and an administrative shell with which you can control and automate nearly every aspect of Windows. It accepts and executes commands immediately, and you can write scripts to manage most Windows servers like Exchange, IIS, and SharePoint.

A Windows admin using PowerShell every day may not have the time to search the net every time he or she hits a snag. Wouldn’t it be great to have a team of seasoned PowerShell experts ready to answer even the toughest questions? That’s what you get with this book.

PowerShell in Depth is the kind of book you’ll want open on your desk most of the time. With 40 short chapters, each focused on a specific area of PowerShell, you’ll be able to find the answers you need quickly.

If you are serious about learning some of the intermediate to advanced concepts in PowerShell, Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches 1st Edition is for you. Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks are the authors of this book. This new book by two PowerShell experts, Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks, has been a helpful eye-opener. First of all, the writing is crisp and clear and the authors’ focus on “toolmaking”: Create a tool for each task and “then ‘connect’ those tools together into a process by writing what we call a controller script.” They emphasize the importance of “making things smaller” in the process of creating PowerShell scripts. “For any given process that you need to automate, what are the smallest units of work you can create to accomplish each task within the process. It gets you started quickly on the process of building useful tools. Still, there is much to take in, and you may need several “months of lunches” get really good at PowerShell scripting, as well as (later in the book) saving the created data using SQL Server. While PowerShell is now available for other platforms besides Windows, the authors state that the examples in this book have been tested only with Windows 10. Also, the coding platform recommended in the book is Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code and you must use version 3 or later of PowerShell.