Last Day to Submit Your Letter of Interest for the 2016 PASS Nominating Committee
I submitted my letter just a few minutes ago. It’s a template, doesn’t take more than 5 minutes to fill out and...
2016-03-23
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The OUPUT Clause in an INSERT–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-04-04 (first published: 2016-03-23)
3,228 reads
Data loading into Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) is a new platform-as-a service (PaaS) that distributes workloads across multiple compute resources, called massively parallel processing (MPP)....
2016-03-23
623 reads
I’m presenting for the Pass Security Virtual Chapter!
Tomorrow (3/24/2016) at noon CT I’ll be presenting my SQL Server Security Basics session for the Pass Security Virtual Chapter....
2016-03-23
477 reads
The ‘In Recovery’ Mystery
Last week I received an email from one of our sysadmins asking why one of our databases kept showing as...
2016-03-31 (first published: 2016-03-22)
1,662 reads
Color Themes for Power BI
Color coordination is important in report and dashboard design. We’ve seen theming and color pallet options in the prior iteration...
2016-03-22
1,180 reads
SQLBits in Space
It’s coming in May. The official UK SQL Server 2016 launch event is SQL Bits and the conference returns to...
2016-03-29 (first published: 2016-03-22)
1,400 reads
ETL Auditing
It happens far too often: Once an ETL process has been tested and executes successfully, there are no further checks...
2016-03-29 (first published: 2016-03-22)
2,299 reads
SQL Server Service Broker – Introduction
SQL Server Service Broker is a messaging technology that’s baked right into the SQL Server engine. It was first introduced...
2016-03-30 (first published: 2016-03-22)
2,304 reads
Recertification, too easy?
3 years I was awarded the MCSE: Data Platform certification and as per the recertification rules, I needed to recertify this year to keep it active. So shortly after...
2016-03-21
18 reads
Blogs
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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