My Best Blog Posts from 2015
ALWAYS LEARNING About mid-way into August of 2015, I learned some important new factors in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) that caused me to make some big changes to the way in...
2016-02-01
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My Best Blog Posts from 2015
ALWAYS LEARNING About mid-way into August of 2015, I learned some important new factors in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) that caused me to make some big changes to the way in...
2016-02-01
29 reads
Limitation of In-Memory OLTP in SQL Server 2016 – LOB datatypes not supported
Hi friends, Wish you all a very Happy New Year. This is my first blog of 2016 and starting it...
2016-02-01
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SQL Server 2016: configure TempDB during installation
Proper configuration of the TempDB system database is crucial for optimal performance of a SQL Server instances during heavy loads. The recommended...
2016-02-04 (first published: 2016-01-31)
8,350 reads
PowerShell Pester Testing for Parameter Validation
This error caught me out. I am putting this post here firstly to remind me if I do it again...
2016-01-31
722 reads
PowerShell Pester Testing for Parameter Validation
This error caught me out. I am putting this post here firstly to remind me if I do it again...
2016-02-08 (first published: 2016-01-31)
1,779 reads
PowerShell Pester – "The script failed due to call depth overflow."
This error caught me out. I am putting this post here firstly to remind me if I do it again...
2016-01-31
858 reads
PowerShell Pester – "The script failed due to call depth overflow."
This error caught me out. I am putting this post here firstly to remind me if I do it again...
2016-02-04 (first published: 2016-01-31)
1,714 reads
Meet the Team- Eitan Blumin
When I was about 7 years old and got my first computer during the early nineties,
I said “This is...
2016-01-31
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Speaking at SQLSaturday Chicago
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQLSaturday Chicago on March 5th 2016! This will be my first SQLSaturday event and I’m really excited that I...
2016-01-29
14 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...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
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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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