SQL Server 2022 Paid Editions Require a Licensing Key
For the final release of SQL Server 2022, Microsoft popped a surprise that wasn’t in the release candidates
2022-12-05
Articles
Webinar | Database Monitoring: The ROI of Build vs. Buy
There are many things to consider when deciding whether to invest in a database monitoring tool or whether to use a homegrown solution. However, the business frequently wants to know one thing and one thing only: what’s the return on this investment (ROI)? In this webinar, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Grant Fritchey, is joined by our expert panel to share the pros and cons to building a monitoring system versus purchasing one.
2022-12-05
Getting started with ROUND() and Its Use Cases
Learn the basics of the ROUND() function in this article.
2022-12-02
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A Real-world Implementation of Database DevOps: People, Processes, Tools
This series of articles describes a path you can take to transforming an existing, manual and error-prone database development and release process into an automated and reliable Database DevOps 'pipeline', starting here with an overview of what we set out to achieve, and the people, processes and tools involved.
2022-12-02
SQL RAISERROR to Better Handle Errors
Learn how and why to use RAISERROR in your SQL Server code to be able to better handle errors that may occur during code execution.
2022-12-02
Basic Checks on a New AWS RDS SQL Server
When you first become responsible for a new RDS instance, what do you do? Kenneth Igiri gives you a few queries to get you started.
2022-11-30
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Oracle optimizer Or Expansion Transformations
The previous installment of this series examined aggregate subquery removal and subquery coalescing, describing the latter as similar in some ways to an inverse for “Or Expansion” and “Join Factorization”. In this instalment, it’s time to take a closer look at Or Expansion and we’ll move on to Join Factorization in the next instalment.
2022-11-30
Webinar | Test Data Management
With the average data breach costing $4.35 million, Test Data Management (TDM) is crucial. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how TDM can reduce your risk by achieving scalable compliance without slowing down your database development process. Watch on demand now.
2022-11-30
A week in Seattle in 8 Slides at the PASS Data community Summit 2022
A look back at the PASS Data Community Summit in 8 slides from Tonie Huizer.
2022-11-28
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Being Agile - A Success Story
Learn how one company adopted, adapted, and learned from the Agile methodology.
2022-11-28
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Blogs
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
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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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