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

You could also stop using the external 'SQLCMD.EXE' and use the Invoke-Sqlcmd cmdlet instead:

Invoke-Sqlcmd is a SQL Server cmdlet that runs scripts that contain statements from the languages (Transact-SQL and XQuery) and commands that are supported by the sqlcmd utility

Just open the 'sqlps' utility and run

Invoke-Sqlcmd -InputFile "C:\temp\sql.sql"

Please see Running SQL Server PowerShell

You can also load the SQL Server snap-ins manually in PowerShell before using 'Invoke-Sqlcmd';
for MS SQL Server 2012 you can do that by running
Import-Module SqlPs