Security: Create and view Audit Logs
It is important to have a secure environment, enforcing the least privilege principle in your servers and databases, but this...
2018-04-30
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Blog Posts
Shiny Tech Syndrome
This is the name I give to anyone who, whilst learning a new technology, suddenly thinks it’s the best thing...
2018-04-30
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SQL Server Removing Outliers With Standard Deviation
When running aggregations for reporting in some situations outliers can throw out the numbers.
For example lets say we have a...
2018-04-30
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Export data from Cosmos DB to SQL Server
Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s latest NoSQL database offering low latency, high scalability and geo-distribution to any Azure region. Read Microsoft...
2018-04-29
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Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB
What is Azure Cosmos DB?
Cosmos DB started as an internal project – “Project Florence” – at Microsoft in 2010. It is a...
2018-04-29
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SQL Server Minimum Memory Setting
There is almost never a reason to set this setting unless you’re running other apps on the same server as...
2018-04-29
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SQL Server Advanced Aggregations Part 2 ROLLUP and CUBE
This post is part 2 of a 3 part series…
Part 1 Grouping SetsPart 2 ROLLUP and CUBEPart 3 GROUPING and...
2018-04-28
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Backup VisualSVN using PowerShell
Quick and easy backup for VisualSVN. Wraps the svnadmin.exe and performs a hotcopy of all repositories in the $source_path, dumping them to the $backup_path [crayon-5c98d5a77e81c224584330/]
2018-04-27
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How to get alerted anytime SQL Service is restarted?
You may and should have monitoring in place to monitor state of your servers, services, jobs, critical and not critical...
2018-04-27
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Python Jupyter Notebooks in Azure
There’s a new feature in Azure, and I stumbled on it when someone posted a link on Twitter. Apologies, I...
2018-04-27 (first published: 2018-04-18)
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Blogs
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...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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Let's Talk Certifications
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The Hidden Security Risks of Role Combination in SSAS Tabular
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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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