Denali – Day 26: Tool: Power View- Reporting Power View (Aka Crescent)
Denali – Day 26: Tool: Power View -Reporting Power View (Aka Crescent) If you are good with: Xls Pivot table Power...
2012-05-26
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Blog Posts
New built-in functions in SQL Server 2012
Introduction:
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 introduces 14 new built-in functions. These functions will make the migration path for...
2012-05-26
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SQL Saturday #132 Pensacola and Wheeling, WV PASS UG
I have 2 upcoming speaker opportunities in June and am very excited about presenting this material.
June 9th is in...
2012-05-26
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Backup duration statistics
Here is a simple query which can list backup duration statistics for all database, including the max, min, avg of...
2012-05-25
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Building a Presentation Map
This idea came up during a critique of a presentation. I may have re-invented (or re-labeled) something that is already...
2012-05-25
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Denali – Day 25: Tools: Add-on to Sql server 2008 (R2)
Denali – Day 25: Tools: Add-on to Sql server 2008 (R2)
MDS and Best Practice Analyzer new features were introduced in sql...
2012-05-25
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Exercise in the Margins
This article about exercising when you can is really interesting. It contains a number of hints about exercising and fitting...
2012-05-25
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From the Labs of SQL Prompt
I love SQL Prompt as an add-in for SSMS. The intellisense is very handy for me and I’ve gotten used...
2012-05-25 (first published: 2012-05-21)
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How to restore the tail end of a transaction log
Have you ever tried to restore a backup over an existing database and receive an error stating the tail of...
2012-05-25 (first published: 2012-05-21)
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SQL Server – Cannot resolve collation conflict
A friend of mine contacted me through email today having a very common problem with a query he had written....
2012-05-25
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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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