SSAS: Duplicate Attribute Key Error
One type of error that arises occasionally during SSAS cube processing is the ‘duplicate attribute key’ error. The error message...
2012-05-07
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Blog Posts
SSIS 2012 Copy or Duplicate Environments
In SSIS 2012 there is a great new feature called environments. They can be thought of as a collection of parameters...
2012-05-07 (first published: 2012-05-02)
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The Fantastic 12 of SQL Server 2012
The SQL Server Team Blog is in the midst of posting twelve, short weekly videos that let someone from the...
2012-05-07
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Updated SQL Rockstar Blogger Rankings
This morning, Thomas LaRock (blog|@SQLRockstar) released an updated version of his Blogger Rankings. I was very happy and humbled to...
2012-05-07
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Denali — Day 6: indirect Checkpoint
Denali – Day 6: indirect Checkpoint
I have already blog some information about checkpoint here
As I have already blog about Checkpoint and...
2012-05-06
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Implementing a replication agent progess bar
Using Replication Management Objects, SQL Server subscriptions can be synchronized programmatically without using SQL Server Agent or SQL Server Management...
2012-05-06
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Denali — Day 5: Column-store indexes (aka Project Apollo)
Denali – Day 5: Column-store indexes (aka Project Apollo)
There is another great achievement for Denali, especially for Data warehouse, where data...
2012-05-05
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It was time for an upgrade
I am not one of these anti PC sorta guys, but I do love my MacBook Pro. I have owned...
2012-05-05
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Kindle Fire Parental Controls
I blogged a while back about not having the ability to easily disable purchasing on the Kindle. Until recently we...
2012-05-05
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SQLRally Can’t Miss Events
Things have been quiet around here lately and I have a one word explanation….SQLRally. There’s work and family and several...
2012-05-05
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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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