It is possible to use the SQL Server Agent to execute PowerShell scripts. If you've worked with the SQL Server Agent to run jobs on your server, you already know that whenever you define a job step, ...

Microsoft has released SQL Server Management Studio 22.9.0, delivering another round of updates to its primary graphical tool for administering SQL Server and related Azure database services. Updates ...

You can give your users rights to check if reports have run or jobs are complete without granting full admin rights. Here’s how you can do so by using SQLAgentReaderRole in SQL Server. We may earn ...

The CDW allows you to copy a database from one SQL Server to another along with associated Logins. It generates a Job that executes an SSIS package that, by default, uses the SQL Server Agent Service ...

This is a valid program that is required to run at startup. This program is required to run on startup in order to benefit from its functionality or so that the program will work. The following ...

Microsoft shipped SQL Server Management Studio 22.7.0 on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in what the team called one of the bigger point releases in the 22.x cycle. Database developers who have spent years ...