{"id":74191,"date":"2015-10-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/10\/29\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-versions-of-sql-server\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:34:44","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-versions-of-sql-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-versions-of-sql-server\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Versions of SQL Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to find versions of SQL Server.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to see all the versions of SQL Server I have installed?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the provider and a list of instances to look them up as if they were files in a directory:<\/p>\n

$instances = @(‘KIRK’,’SPOCK’,’PICARD’,’RIKER’)<\/p>\n

$instances | ForEach-Object {Get-Item “SQLSERVER:\\SQL\\$_\\DEFAULT”} | Select-Object Name,VersionString<\/p>\n

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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find versions of SQL Server.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to see all the versions of SQL Server I have installed?  Use the provider and a list of instances to look them up as if they were files in a directory: $instances = @(‘KIRK’,’SPOCK’,’PICARD’,’RIKER’) $instances | ForEach-Object {Get-Item “SQLSERVER:\\SQL\\$_\\DEFAULT”} […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,399,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-74191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-mike-fal","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find versions of SQL Server.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to see all the versions of SQL Server I have installed?  Use the provider and a list of instances to look them up as if they were files in a directory: $instances = @(‘KIRK’,’SPOCK’,’PICARD’,’RIKER’) $instances | ForEach-Object {Get-Item “SQLSERVER:\\SQL\\$_\\DEFAULT”} […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}