I'm trying to start/stop MS SQL Service on various DB servers (locally) but we don't always know the name of the instance (Always only 1 SQL Server running on a single server).

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Can you import the Foxpro data into a SQL database first? No sense it trying to hack your way around running queries on this data in its current state needlessly.

PowerShell vs. SQL Server Management Studio When I (along with many other people) had a lot of trouble trying to install SQL Server Management Studio in an attempt to switch from the SQL Server 2008 ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database.

Flat File Import into SQL Server Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server.