Comparing Agent Jobs across Availability Group Replicas with PowerShell
On the plane home from PAS Summit I was sat next to someone who had also attended and when he...
2017-11-27 (first published: 2017-11-10)
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Blog Posts
Create users in Azure AD
In this post I'll show you how to create new users in your Azure Active Directory so you can use them as service accounts or to grant other users...
2017-11-27
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Create users in Azure AD
In this post I'll show you how to create new users in your Azure Active Directory so you can use...
2017-11-27
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Installing Pester
One of the things that I believe strongly in is that we need better testing of software. Actually, what we...
2017-11-27
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Spaced-Out Strings
I came across this in a code review not long ago:
Three things pop into my head when I see this...
2017-11-27 (first published: 2017-11-13)
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Using PowerShell To Deploy Scripts From GitHub to Multiple SQL Servers
Now I’m all for making my life easier and one thing that makes life easier for me is having a...
2017-11-27
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Vigilant SQL DBA Vulnerability Management & 1st Look at Azure Vulnerability Assessments (Baltimore SSUG Session last week)
Just a quick note to share last Wednesday night's presentation on how to manage SQL Server vulnerabilities, plus a first...
2017-11-27
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Flexible connections and an old friend
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Just lately I’ve found myself involved with an app that needed to run on a server and nearly always (although...
2017-11-26
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SQL SERVER ON LINUX INSTALLATION – PART4 – INSTALL SQL SERVER AGENT ON RHEL
In my previous tips, I explained about install RHEL Server on the virtual machine, install SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Enterprise...
2017-11-25
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Tricks - Copy T SQL Result to Excel
Sometimes, some of the silliest of tricks save so much of time and effort. Very common scenario is to copy a query result to excel. Most take either of...
2017-11-25
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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...
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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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