T-SQL Tuesday #44: The second chance
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bradly Ball (blog | twitter) and the topic is second chances. The idea is...
2013-07-09
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SQL 2014 CTP1, where is my BIDS?
Oh wait sorry, I meant SSDT. Or was it SSDTBI? To avoid confusion about the developer tool to create BI...
2013-06-28
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 10 – Creating a BI site
In the final part of this series, we will create a BI subsite in our site collection. You can use...
2013-06-12
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 9 – Installing Reporting Services
Finally we are getting to the really sweet stuff: Power View. But first we have to install Reporting Services in...
2013-06-11
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 8 – Verifying PowerPivot Integration
After configuring SharePoint in the part 7, we will now verify if the configuration was successful and if everything works...
2013-06-10
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 7 – Configuring SharePoint
In this blog post we go over one of the most important parts of the series: running the PowerPivot Configuration...
2013-06-07
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 6 – Installing PowerPivot for SharePoint
Before we can configure SharePoint, we will have to install the Analysis Service instance that will host the PowerPivot workbooks...
2013-06-06
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 5 – Installing SharePoint
Let’s get started with the next step in the series: installing SharePoint. We will install only the software, but we...
2013-06-10 (first published: 2013-06-05)
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 3 – Installing the OS
This part of the series will focus on installing the Windows Server 2012 OS on the virtual machine. In most...
2013-06-03
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 2 – Building the VM
In this blog post I’ll explain how I build the VM and VHD for my virtual demo environment. I use...
2013-05-31
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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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