Jeffrey Snover: The SQL team has been receiving a lot of bashing lately over some of the decisions they made integrating PowerShell into SQL 2008. I thought I would take a couple minutes to clarify a few things, eat some sin and talk about a constructive engagement model between the community and the feature teams implementing PowerShell cmdlets.
First let me declare my long standing admiration for the SQL team. Those superstars have consistently been one of the teams that really GOT what it meant to release software for production environments. They have a great quality culture and process and they have top-shelf leadership that reinforces this across the board. SQL has been the gold standard of great scripting because their GUIs produce scripts that you could harvest for reuse (yes it wasn't full coverage but they GOT IT years before anyone else). They are a great team - full stop.
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