SSIS Performance Testing
I had to do some performance testing for an upcoming MSSQLTips article and I thought I’d share the framework I...
2014-04-16 (first published: 2014-04-08)
3,315 reads
Koen Verbeeck
Changing the 1000 separator in Power View
Recently I was designing a simple Power View report on top of a multi-dimensional SSAS cube. Out of the box,...
2014-03-11
1,007 reads
Thinking with Data by Max Shron
DISCLAIMER
I recently enrolled myself in the O’Reilly Blogger Review program, which basically allows me to get one O’Reilly eBook for...
2014-02-27
1,198 reads
Dude, where’s my Power Map?
If you haven’t noticed lately, Power Map has gone into General Availability as of 25 of February 2014. It comes...
2014-03-06 (first published: 2014-02-26)
2,742 reads
Dealing with the mysterious “True” column in BIML
Recently I ran into the following error when compiling BIML into SSIS packages:
The message itself is not very revealing:
The data...
2014-02-18
1,025 reads
Calculating the length of a hash in SQL Server
Some time ago I added a script component to a few SSIS packages to compare rows with each other using...
2014-02-11
2,605 reads
Master Data Services (Second Edition) – Review
For the preparation of my upcoming talk about SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services on the Microsoft Business Analytics Day...
2014-01-31
1,928 reads
Star Schema The Complete Reference – Review
I finished my first book of this year and here’s the review! After I finished the newest edition of Ralph...
2014-01-23
1,185 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #50: Automation, how much of it is the same?
It’s the second Tuesday of the New Year, so here comes the first T-SQL Tuesday of 2014! SQLChow (blog | twitter)...
2014-01-14
680 reads
Happy 2014
I am a bit late with the almost obligatory “How was my past year and how do I think next...
2014-01-07
599 reads
Blogs
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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...
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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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