SSRS: FORMAT option for milliseconds
Some of our reports have hyperlink enabled on few metrics which points to an internal website. Recently there was a...
2012-05-21
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Blog Posts
Denali – Day 20: More Programmability Feature
Denali – Day 20: More Programmability Feature
Native XML Web Services (SOAP/HTTP endpoints) is Removed:
Earlier version of sql server support Web services...
2012-05-20
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Dynamic Stored Procedure Execution in SQL Server
In my previous blog post: Suggestion: “USE” Keyword with Linked Servers, I talked about the suggestion I’ve posted on Microsoft...
2012-05-20
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MS SQL Server : Nested Transaction and Partial Rollback of Transaction
Couple of days back, one of my colleague came to me and asked about partial rollback of a transaction.He was trying...
2012-05-20
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SQL Server Memory Usage - Task Manager
Another question I have answered 100s of times to Non SQL folks. "SQLServr.Exe is consuming 80% of memory. Can you...
2012-05-20
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Denali – Day 19: Programmability Feature -T-Sql
Denali – Day 19: Programmability Feature -T-Sql
ORDER BY .. OFFSET and FETCH :mysql LIMIT (srno ):
OFFSET is a location of the rows...
2012-05-19
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Promised Links from SQL Saturday 119 Presentations
If you attended one of the sessions I promised to post the links we discussed here. I have done my...
2012-05-19
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Build a Little Free Library
I saw this on the Boing Boing feed yesterday, Little Free Library is a project to try to build 2500...
2012-05-18
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Denali – Day 18: Engine: Express LocalDB–Command line
Denali – Day 18: Engine: Express LocalDB–Command line
Express LocalDB is an express edition with minimum files required to start sql server...
2012-05-18
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Expectations-The Big Disconnect
One of the things I’ve learned from running events is to set expectations. If you’re going to provide coffee don’t...
2012-05-18
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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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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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