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It seems like PASS Summit 2015 was just yesterday and here we are again, getting ready for Summit 2016 already. ...
2016-01-08
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Advent of Code Day 1, Puzzle B
As I continue through the Advent of Code, albeit slowly, I’m solving each puzzle 3 days. I worked through 6...
2016-01-08
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Why is my SQL Server using all of the RAM on the server?
The TL;DR on this is simple:
"BECAUSE IT'S SUPPOSED TO!"
A frequent complaint we receive comes from a client that has an...
2016-01-14 (first published: 2016-01-08)
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Transaction Logging & Recovery (part 2)
Transaction Logging & Recovery (part 2)
… Continuation of some notes regarding the excellent content by Paul Randal in Pluralsight: SQL Server:...
2016-01-08
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Trace Flag 3226 - Suppress all successful backups in SQL server error log
SQL server error log contain all information about how a SQL server is running, what is happening and occurring for...
2016-01-13 (first published: 2016-01-08)
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Transaction Logging & Recovery (part 2)
... Continuation of some notes regarding the excellent content by Paul Randal in Pluralsight: SQL Server: Logging, Recovery, and the Transaction...
2016-01-08
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Alter Event Session
Altering an Extended Event session is not necessarily a difficult task, but it is a very useful ability. Having this basic skill in your wheelhouse can be very positive...
2016-01-08
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Alter Event Session
Ready for a change of pace? Good! Today is a really good time to start looking into one of the...
2016-01-13 (first published: 2016-01-08)
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What is SSDT? Part 3 - an API for me, an API for you, an API for everyone!
In the final part of this 3 part series on what SSDT actually is I am going to talk about...
2016-01-07
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What is SSDT? Part 3 - an API for me, an API for you, an API for everyone!
In the final part of this 3 part series on what SSDT actually is I am going to talk about the documented API. What I mean by documented is...
2016-01-07
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Blogs
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
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 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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