The Demo Setup–Attaching Databases with Powershell

I found another use for Powershell, one actually suggested by someone else: attaching specific SQL Server databases.
TL;DR I have a...

“Thing IS NOT NULL” isn’t the same as “Thing != NULL”

I’ve talked about NULLs before. (Ref: Here’s a bit on ISNULL(), and here’s one about understanding NULL at a basic level.)...

Review of Minion Reindex

Back in October 2014 Midnight SQL released v1.0 of Minion Reindex, a free, open source index maintenance solution. I’m all...

Review of Minion Reindex

Back in October 2014 Midnight SQL released v1.0 of Minion Reindex, a free, open source index maintenance solution. I’m all...

How To Speak At SQL Saturday Events

The PASS SQL Saturday events are meant to be a place to grow the pool of speakers, provide a mechanism...

There are #temp tables and then there are ##temp tables.

Temporary tables are a common enough thing in T-SQL that most of us have probably used them on a fairly...

Iterating Through Excel Worksheets with Biml

Wrangling large or complex Excel workbooks in SSIS can be a challenge. From managing data types (more about that in...

Statistics on UNIQUEIDENTIFIER columns

During the SQLRally conference in Copenhagen/Denmark, Brent Ozar (Blog, Twitter) and I had a very interesting conversation regarding Statistics on...

Date Range Challenge in sql

Hi Folks,

When you work in a offshore - onsite setup in IT industry and if you are fortunate 🙂 to be a...

How to Replace Multiple Strings in a File using PowerShell

Replace the Data Source and Initial Catalog values of WebConfig.XML
Content of XML file
<Configuration ConfiguredType=”Property” Path=”\Package.Connections[ConnStaging].Properties[ConnectionString]” ValueType=”String”>

<ConfiguredValue>Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=Stage;Integrated Security=SSPI; Connection Timeout = 10</ConfiguredValue>

</Configuration>

PARAM(
[String]$DatabaseName='DCTarget',
[String]$XML='c:\webconfig.XML',
[String]$DatabaseServer='DataCenterDB01')[string]$db...