How To Enlarge Your Columns With No Downtime
Let’s face it: column enlargement is a very sensitive topic. I get thousands of emails every month on this particular...
2017-11-15
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Blog Posts
Installing the MDS add-in for Excel 2016
For some reason I attract all kinds of misery when working with Master Data Services. Today I was trying to...
2017-11-15
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Learning to Give Presentations Well (Part 2)
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In Part 1, I gave some advice from Toastmasters. We’ll return to the Toastmasters advice in Part 3....
2017-11-15
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Microsoft Connect(); announcements
Microsoft Connect(); is a developer event from Nov 15-17, where plenty of announcements are made. Here is a summary of the data...
2017-11-15
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Microsoft Connect(); announcements
Microsoft Connect(); is a developer event from Nov 15-17, where plenty of announcements are made. Here is a summary of the data...
2017-11-15
88 reads
Over-Indexing can hurt your SQL Server performance
Indexes are a vast subject and well documented elsewhere on the web. But, it is still a very commonly asked...
2017-11-15 (first published: 2017-11-05)
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PowerShell for fun (and profit?)
Let's have a liltle fun with PowerShell. Along with, I suppose, a couple of useful things and links.
The post PowerShell...
2017-11-15
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Presenting Azure Vs. Working With Azure
I have a real infatuation with Azure. I’m especially interested in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings in and...
2017-11-15
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Running any AzureRM powershell command tells you to "Run Login-AzureRmAccount to login." even though you are logged in!
Every AzureRM command I was running I would get an error message telling me to login, I then did a login, checked that I had the right subscription and...
2017-11-15
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Running any AzureRM powershell command tells you to "Run Login-AzureRmAccount to login." even though you are logged in!
Every AzureRM command I was running I would get an error message telling me to login, I then did a...
2017-11-15
283 reads
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
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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