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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Blog Posts
Which Collation is Used to Convert NVARCHAR to VARCHAR in a WHERE Condition? (Part B of 2: “Rabbit”)
(If you’re reading this on SQL Server Central, please click here to see the “Featured Image” which will help explain...
2017-12-28 (first published: 2017-12-11)
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Is Your Database Overweight?
The obesity epidemic is much in the news these days. The list of health issues related to being overweight is...
2017-12-27 (first published: 2017-12-13)
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Message in a Bottle of XE
Considering this "feature" for everything that is SQL Server related, does this mean that all Extended Events related messages are accessible in sys.messages?
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Message in a Bottle of XE
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2017-12-27
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Message in a Bottle of XE
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No moving parts, the story of persistent memory
In November 2017, during the PASS Summit keynote, Microsoft’s Bob Ward (Principal Architect) demonstrated a “diskless database” running on Hewlett-Packard...
2017-12-27
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 83 – ChartAccent – LineChart)
In this module you will learn how to use the ChartAccent LineChart Custom Visual. This visual is a custom line...
2017-12-27
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Precon at SQLKonferenz 2018
One of my favourite conferences (and so far I was incredibly lucky to have spoken at every edition) is SQLKonferenz,...
2017-12-27
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Renaming a Column–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2017-12-27 (first published: 2017-12-11)
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
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“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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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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