Tag: SQL

I have been reading on all kinds of Microsoft technologies, including PowerShell. Which is a pretty cool tool. I have tried it before and it did not work well for me then because I did not understand its purpose. It is not a normal OS shell. Instead, it is the shell for the .NET virtual machine. Exactly the thing that Java is missing, and the gap that it tries to plug with the crap like Ant and Maven, unsuccessfully. PowerShell lets you run all the .NET methods interactively from the command line, and build the pipelines of them. It has some very cool syntax that lets you automatically apply the pipeline input in the same way as the command-line input. It also has the remote execution functionality, so it serves as an analog of the rsh/ssh (more advanced in some ways, less advanced in the others) in the Microsoft ecosystem.