Excel Power Map vs. Power BI Globe Map visualization
[2016-02-02] PowerMap in Excel is a great tool with good design and comprehensive user experience. I’ve started using it about...
2016-02-09 (first published: 2016-02-02)
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Microsoft Azure Stack in Preview!
Microsoft made available the first technical preview of its new Microsoft Azure Stack offering today. It was announced last week. Azure...
2016-02-09 (first published: 2016-02-01)
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Loading a Text File from T-SQL
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-02-10 (first published: 2016-02-01)
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SSC Editorial: Design a Better SQL Server Pricing Model
Design a Better SQL Server Pricing Model ran on January 21, 2016 and as you can guess from the title is...
2016-02-01
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Monday Morning SQL Break – February 1, 2016
It’s Monday and time fora round-up of last week’s blog and twitter activity – and even an on-time post for all of...
2016-02-01
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Learning R: Happy With My Book Choice
This is just a quick update. I wrote about the two books I’m using to learn R. Well, I’m extremely...
2016-02-01
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Running code on the startup of SQL Server
Every now and again you need to run code when your instance starts up. For example you might want to...
2016-02-08 (first published: 2016-02-01)
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TempDB Excessive Memory Usage Example
I see TempDB using more memory than I feel it should and found a way to resolve it. Previously I dove into technical details and questioning what I saw...
2016-02-01
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TempDB Excessive Memory Usage Example
I see TempDB using more memory than I feel it should and found a way to resolve it. Previously I...
2016-02-05 (first published: 2016-02-01)
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Memory Fundamentals for SQL Server - AWE ( Address Windowing Extensions), /PAE Switch (Physical Address Extension)
In the previous blog we saw the difference between Virtual Address Space between 32-bit and 64-bit systems. We also saw...
2016-02-05 (first published: 2016-02-01)
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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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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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