Install SQL Server PowerShell module
SQL Server
Azure SQL Database
Azure Synapse Analytics (SQL DW)
Parallel Data Warehouse
This article provides directions for installing the SqlServer PowerShell module.
Note
There are two SQL Server PowerShell modules:
- SQLPS: This module is included with the SQL Server installation (for backwards compatibility), but is no longer being updated. The most up-to-date PowerShell module is the SqlServer module.
- SqlServer: This module includes new cmdlets to support the latest SQL features. The module also contains updated versions of the cmdlets in SQLPS.
Previous versions of the SqlServer module were included with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), but only with the 16.x versions of SSMS. To use PowerShell with SSMS 17.0 and later, the SqlServer module must be installed from the PowerShell Gallery.
Pre-release versions of the module may become available more frequently: please refer to the section at the bottom of this page on how to get such versions of the module.
To install the SqlServer module from the PowerShell Gallery, start a PowerShell session and use the following commands. If you run into problems installing, see the Install-Module documentation and Install-Module reference.
To install the SqlServer module:
Install-Module -Name SqlServer
If there are previous versions of the SqlServer module on the computer, you may be able to use Update-Module
(later in this article), or provide the -AllowClobber
parameter:
Install-Module -Name SqlServer -AllowClobber
If you are not able to run the PowerShell session as administrator, you can install for the current user:
Install-Module -Name SqlServer -Scope CurrentUser
When updated versions of the SqlServer module are available, you can update the version using Update-Module
:
Update-Module -Name SqlServer
To view the versions of the module installed:
Get-Module SqlServer -ListAvailable
To use a specific version of the module, you can import it with a specific version number similar to the following:
Import-Module SqlServer -Version 21.1.18080
Note
Prerelease (or "preview") versions of the module may be available on the PowerShell Gallery. They may be discovered and installed by using the updated Find-Module and Install-Module cmdlets that are part of the PowerShellGet module) by passing the -AllowPrerelease switch.
To discover the prerelease/preview version of the module, you can run the following command:
Find-Module SqlServer -AllowPrerelease
To install a specific prerelease/preview version of the module, you can install it with a specific version number similar to the following:
Install-Module SqlServer -RequiredVersion 21.1.18040-preview -AllowPrerelease
The versions of the SqlServer module in the PowerShell Gallery support versioning and require PowerShell version 5.0 or greater.
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