Paging Doctor Powershell
Use Powershell to create a single script that checks over your server and every SQL instance on it to help pinpoint problems.
2014-04-11 (first published: 2011-04-04)
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Zach Mattson
- Interests: Powershell for automating myself out of a job.
Moving Indexes with Powershell and SMO
Using Powershell with SMO, learn to alter or move indexes easily in this new article from Zach Mattson.
2010-09-30
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SSIS for Multiple Environments
In this article, Zach Mattson shows us how you can set up SSIS to handle multiple application environments and easily move packages from development to QA to production.
2010-04-27
10,041 reads
SSIS Custom Error Handling
This article from Zach Mattson shows how you can set up custom error handling in your SSIS packages. Learn how to direct those error rows to another component for separate processing.
2009-03-17
11,815 reads
Clustering Reporting Services
Reporting Services is an add-on to SQL Server 2000, but most users would probably see it as a critical service that allows them access to their data. New authors Zach Mattson and Tom Lodermeier explain how to install Reporting Services on a cluster in an economical way.
2006-05-10
11,785 reads
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The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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