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Free eBook: SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP

In this free eBook, Kalen Delaney explains how Microsoft's 2016 In-memory OLTP engine works. In her book, learn how to use lock- and latch-free data structures to allow non-blocking data processing, and find out how to migrate existing tables to Hekaton.

2020-12-30 (first published: )

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Join the Redgate Tool Tips Swap

Learn and share tool tips with your peers. Redgate has launched their Tool Tips Swap to help everyone make the most of their Redgate products. To get involved, simply share your top Redgate tool tip for boosting productivity. All tips will be collated into a blog post and shared with the community. Plus, you’ll get the chance to win a 3-month subscription to Pluralsight.

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Save costs with Azure Data Factory

A typical project following any industry standard process for building Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines will have different environments as part of development lifecycle. They might be named Development, Staging, Production, and so on. This article describes an approach to save costs from running ADF pipelines using Triggers. Typical ADF environments will have pipelines ingesting, […]

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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]
GO
What 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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