Powershell supports Linux

Microsoft this week announced that PowerShell is now open sourced and available on Linux, the start of a development process that aims to enable users to manage any platform from anywhere, on any device.

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Windows Powershell

Last few days I spent most of the time on my personal development to learn and understand about Windows Powershell; Microsoft new scripting language. I’ve not being used any scripting language extensively. But now I understand how much power will bring to a DBA by learning this kind of a scripting language. 

You may be thinking why do you need a scripting language while having most powerful user friendly GUIs in Windows. Ok. I also thought the same way before I learning Powershell.

There are couple of reasons why you should use Powershell. I’m sure there are many more;