How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
Updated for SSMS 21 and later: This is a new, rewritten version of my earlier article...
2026-10-10
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10 Decisions to Make Before You Create A Fabric Workspace
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built content in them takes a lot longer. Moving content to another workspace usually means redeploying...
2026-10-09 (first published: 2026-09-29)
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Flyway Tips: Object History
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the object history for different schema changes, so as you are evaluating how your changes might...
2026-10-09 (first published: 2026-09-28)
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The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA should ask about any AI agent. AgentDBA answers it from its own records: every decision...
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon and SQLCon Barcelona 2026, with approximately 5,000 attendees at the conference. I’ve tried to make...
2026-10-08
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Au Revoir for now
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight for Brussels and this is my last day at work for a couple of weeks....
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Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can, and it really depends on how you run Ollama and what your hardware is. Ollama...
2026-10-07 (first published: 2026-09-23)
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Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series on making data AI-ready. Part 1 covered the fundamentals of AI-ready data, this article looks...
2026-10-07 (first published: 2026-09-24)
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Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting something a little more practical for day-to-day DBA work. Something I could open, work through...
2026-10-05 (first published: 2026-09-22)
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Don’t Fear the Technology
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to be an ever present fear. The technology changes but the fear and the marketing around...
2026-10-05 (first published: 2026-09-22)
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How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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The Empty Aggregate
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Question of the Day
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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