Quick tip: sp_configure and sys.configurations
In order to query the configuration settings of a server you can run this sproc:
exec sp_configureOn a default install of...
2012-05-16
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Suggestion: “USE” keyword with Linked Servers
Using special functions for querying and executing commands at linked servers is not very convenient, and sometimes even very problematic.
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2012-05-16
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Upgrading Packages to SSIS 2012
Many of you may now or in the future have the need to upgrade your SSIS packages to the new...
2012-05-16
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Ad hoc query optimization in SQL Server
When ad hoc queries are executed in sql server, if it is executed without parameters, and it is simple, SQL...
2012-05-15
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Another Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application
There was a great deal of feedback to my previous post One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From...
2012-05-15
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Backup compression using IBM TDP for SQL Server
If you are using SQL Server 2008 enterprise/datacenter edition, or SQL Server 2008 R2 standard or above, you are in...
2012-05-15
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Denali – Day 15: Support for Windows Server Core
Denali – Day 15: Support for Windows Server Core
Windows Server Core: Microsoft Server has so many features which is not required...
2012-05-15
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One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application
This is my attempt to explain something that I have wanted to figure out for a long time. I have...
2012-05-15 (first published: 2012-05-11)
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Session Files from SQL Saturday #107 Houston
Session Files from SQL Saturday #107 Houston
Houston Skyline
SQL Saturday Houston was a great event hosted by the Houston Area SQL...
2012-05-15
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Setting up transactional replication using T-SQL
Replication is one of the more complex of the SQL native “HA/DR” technologies. There are a lot of moving parts....
2012-05-15
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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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