How to execute sqlcmd from powershell?

Question

I have a string in powershell, which contains a native sqlcmd command. The command itself can be executed successfully in cmd.exe. I have difficulty in executing them in pow

Answer 1

The first positional parameter of invoke-command is -scriptblock, and it expects a script block argument. To take advantage of a here-string to build the command and then run it with invoke-command, you need to convert the here-string to a script block:

$sql = @"
sqlcmd -S "(local)\instance1" -U a -P a -i "c:\temp\sql.sql"
 "@

 Invoke-Command ([scriptblock]::create($sql))