Monday Morning SQL Break – January 25, 2016
It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up. If you haven’t already, follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL)....
2016-01-25
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Finding Your Query in Query Store
Query Store is pretty amazing. I’m loving working with it. I think it’s likely to change how query tuning will...
2016-02-01 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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From the Power BI dashboard to a specific page in a Report
Recently, I was working with a customer designing Power BI reports and dashboards. Everything was going great until she asked...
2016-01-25
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Reusing schedules in SQL Agent
I’m a big fan of automation. You get it written, tested, and scheduled, then you just sit back and monitor...
2016-02-01 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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Public Speaking – The First Time
Update for T-SQL Tuesday #84
Well, this year I was challenged with the goal of speaking publicly three times, well I blew that out of the water and have spoken...
2016-01-25
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Public Speaking – The First Time
This past week I had the pleasure of speaking for my first time professionally to the Chicago Suburban SQL Server...
2016-01-25
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Querying Deadlocks From System_Health XEvent
It’s easy to query XEvents to see some of the basic info in deadlocks, including the system_health session which is already capturing this information by default. This script will,...
2016-01-25
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Querying Deadlocks From System_Health XEvent
It’s easy to query XEvents to see some of the basic info in deadlocks, including the system_health session which is...
2016-01-27 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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Speaking at SQL Saturday #500 in Boston!
I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday #500 in Boston on March 19th - I will be speaking (at...
2016-01-25
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Things I learned in 2015
Happy 2016!
I continue my tradition of summarizing the things I learned in the past year (as a reminder, here’s what...
2016-01-25
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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...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
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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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