SQL Server Professionals: NYC Summer Spectacular! Training & Events
This is a very exciting summer to be in New York City! We’re not just talking Central Park, the Theatre...
2012-06-04
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Blog Posts
Testing backups – Is RESTORE DATABASE…VERIFYONLY good enough?
Is it just me, or does there seem to be a lot of discussion these days about testing backups and...
2012-06-04
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Tips to avoid deadlocks?
A database server should be able to service requests from a large number of concurrent users. When a database server...
2012-06-04
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Jacksonville IT Pro Camp
Join system administrators and IT professionals for the Jacksonville IT Pro Camp on Saturday, June 16th, 2012.
IT Pro Camps are...
2012-06-03
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SQL Server Service Broker Explained
What is Service Broker?
Service Broker is a native SQL Server implementation of message queues.
What are message queues?
Message queues are a...
2012-06-03
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Investment for DBA Career
As IT professionals, we all will consider and take actions, at some point of time, to “invest” in our careers....
2012-06-02
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Max Server Memory
Sakthivel Chidambaram recently created a calculator which can find out the max server memory value based on the input.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlsakthi/archive/2012/05/19/cool-now-we-have-a-calculator-for-finding-out-a-max-server-memory-value.aspx
you can...
2012-06-02
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Are you ready?
I have talked about wanting a change. I thought I am prepared to embrace that change when it finally comes.
I...
2012-06-01
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I’m Going on Tour
I’ve done quite a bit of speaking over the last few years, which has required a lot of travel. I...
2012-06-01 (first published: 2012-05-30)
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June Question: Which DMV(s) do you most often use when managing your SQL Server instances, and why?
Dynamic Management Objects (DMVs and DMFs) are some of the most useful tools for the DBA. So this month’s question...
2012-06-01
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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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