To query any SQL database from PowerShell, you need to have the SQLPS module installed along with a few supporting packages. I am going to be focusing on the SQL Server 2012 packages in this article.

To connect to a database in PHP, you use the connect function from the module that is specific to your database brand. For example, to connect to a MySQL database located on your Web server, you ...

I'm going to have to build an app in PHP which does this, but before I do that I'd like to connect to it with a client tool just to see how things are structured and such. I'm afraid I don't know ...

Next, create a Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) file to accept the data and insert it into the database. HTML is only capable of instructing a browser on the method of presenting information.

Variations on SQL are used by some of the most popular database tools in the world, including some of Oracle's database systems, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft's SQL Server.