A Guide for Decrypting SQL Server Database Objects
Overview
The SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 provide a new feature for encrypting data to protect it from...
2018-02-28 (first published: 2018-02-16)
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Blog Posts
Automating Database Deployment: Part 4 Making Changes Using RoundhousE to Migrate the Database
With the Automating Database Deployment: Part 3 Running RoundhousE post we walked through running a RoundhousE deployment for the first time to create the database and several database objects. Script naming...
2018-02-28
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Blocking Locks and Deadlocks
Situation Your query is waiting for another query and the other query is doing nothing. Blocking Locks A blocking lock...
2018-02-28
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Blocking Locks and Deadlocks
Situation Your query is waiting for another query and the other query is doing nothing. Blocking Locks A blocking lock...
2018-02-28
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Dates and Times in SQL Server: SMALLDATETIME
Last week I spoke about a world wary data type for storing dates and times in a single column, with...
2018-02-28
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Doing DevOPs for your Database? You need to start here…
I’ve been doing that thing called DevOPs for about 17 years – you know – before it had a name…
In fact it...
2018-02-28
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New Built-in Function STRING_AGG() – SQL Server 2017
SQL Server 2017 introduces a set of useful functions like STRING_AGG(), STRING_SPLIT(), TRIM()… and many more. In this tip, I am...
2018-02-28
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Offline installation of SQL Server 2017 on Linux
SQL Server is now compatible with different Linux distributions, and there is a lot of excitement about it.How ever one...
2018-02-28
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PASS Summit 2018 – Call for Speakers
It is that time again. PASS has opened the Call for Speakers. I have submitted for the past 10 years,...
2018-02-28
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Safely and Easily Use High-Level Permissions Without Granting Them to Anyone: Server-level
Part of having good security is giving users the fewest / least permissions possible in order to execute the code. However,...
2018-02-28 (first published: 2018-02-15)
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Blogs
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...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
Forums
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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