Pablo Echeverria

I've worked for more than 10 years as a software programmer and analyst, during which time I studied parallel programming and became a senior programmer specialist. In 2016, I switched jobs to a DBA position, where I've implemented new processes and created better monitoring tools, while I'm growing my data scientist skills to improve my customer's businesses.

Check out Pablo's most recent book https://bpbonline.com/products/hands-on-data-virtualization-with-polybase. This book brings exciting coverage on establishing and managing data virtualization using Polybase. This book teaches how to configure Polybase on almost all relational and nonrelational databases. You will learn to setup a test environment for any tool or software instantly without any hassle. You will learn how rapidly to design and build high performing data warehousing solutions.
  • Interests: technology
  • Skills: programming, databases

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Check Your Backup Compliance Against a Data Management Provider

As a database administrator, it's your responsibility to ensure the customer data won't get lost in case of a disaster, so you either provide your own backup strategy, use a third-party script, or hire a data management provider. With the first two options, you have full control over your environment so you can know exactly […]

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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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