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Automating SQL RDS With PowerShell

29th July 2020 By John McCormack Leave a Comment

Automating SQL RDS With PowerShell

Introduction to AWSPowerShell, for managing SQL Server RDS instances. Learn how to create, restore, take snapshots and start/stop instances for cost optimisation reasons.

Apologies that this video is 16 minutes, I really wanted to keep all of the training videos under 10 minutes but there was so much to say about PowerShell. (And I only scratched the surface).

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Filed Under: AWS RDS, AWS SQL Server, SQL Server, Training

About John McCormack

John McCormack is an engineering manager at Docusign. He specialises in SRE and Database administration, and has extensive experience in all major public clouds.

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