Correlate Trace and XE Events
Several years back, when Extended Events was brand new, it was downright painful to try and convert the classic Profiler or Server Side trace to something meaningful and useful...
2017-12-28
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Blog Posts
Correlate Trace and XE Events
Several years back, when Extended Events was brand new, it was downright painful to try and convert the classic Profiler...
2017-12-28
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Correlate Trace and XE Events
Several years back, when Extended Events was brand new, it was downright painful to try and convert the classic Profiler...
2017-12-28
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Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 5: Affordances
Affordances are a general design concept that comes from physical product design but can be applied to visual design. I...
2017-12-28
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RegEx in SSMS: A gift for quick code
I had yet another example of how beautiful Regular Expressions can be in SQL coding today, and so I thought...
2017-12-28
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Some New Cool Features in SSMS
SSMS new versions come up with some cool features. The new features provide support for the SQL Server 2008 databases and onward. Vulnerability Assessment (active from SSMS 17.4) Right...
2017-12-28
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Some New Cool Features in SSMS
SSMS new versions come up with some cool features. The new features provide support for the SQL Server 2008 databases...
2017-12-28
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Some New Cool Features in SSMS
SSMS new versions come up with some cool features. The new features provide support for the SQL Server 2008 databases and onward. Vulnerability Assessment (active from SSMS 17.4) Right...
2017-12-28
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Speaking in 2017
I’m done. No more trips (and no more time) to hit any events this year. As I wrote recently, I’m...
2017-12-28
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Understanding Keys and Certificates with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
I’ve been taking a bit of a deep dive into understanding Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). As part of that I’ve...
2017-12-28 (first published: 2017-12-12)
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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...
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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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