Could not Register Service Principal Name
Have you ever seen the error below in your SQL Server log shortly after startup? You’ll actually see two of...
2015-12-29 (first published: 2015-12-17)
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SET ANSI_NULLS, NOCOUNT and QUOTED_IDENTIFIER.
Hi Guys, When you generate a script to create a Stored Procedure, below three statements are generate by default. SET ANSI_NULLS on SET NOCOUNT on SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER on Why do we...
2015-12-17
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SET ANSI_NULLS, NOCOUNT and QUOTED_IDENTIFIER.
Hi Guys,
When you generate a script to create a Stored Procedure, below three statements are generate by default.
SET ANSI_NULLS on
SET NOCOUNT on
SET...
2015-12-30 (first published: 2015-12-17)
10,291 reads
Tracking Logins with Extended Events
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as#SQLNewBloggers.
I...
2016-01-01 (first published: 2015-12-16)
4,125 reads
What Alerts Us About The SQL Agent? - Syndication – WaterOx Consulting
The SQL Agent is our friend! Setting up SQL Server Agent to automate jobs and alerts is a great idea....
2015-12-16
717 reads
Cannot Open the Properties of a 2014 Availability Group in SSMS 2016 CTP 3
I ran across a bug in SSMS 2016 CTP 2 back in August. If you try to right click and...
2015-12-16
446 reads
Scripting out multiple scripts from the Object Explorer Details window.
A few weeks ago I was reading a blog post by Andrea Allred (b/t) and was just amazed by what...
2015-12-16
598 reads
Indexing Strategy
What do I care about when I’m playing with indexes? That’s easy. I want as few indexes as possible efficiently referenced...
2015-12-28 (first published: 2015-12-16)
3,552 reads
When Should You Use Identity as a Clustered Index Key?
A few days ago, while delivering my session, The Data-Loading Performance Presentation, I was asked when, performance-wise, Identity should be...
2015-12-28 (first published: 2015-12-16)
3,838 reads
Sentiment Analysis & Key Phrase Detection w/ Power Query & Power BI
Recently I worked on a neat little POC with Patrick Leblanc for a customer in Education who wished to perform sentiment...
2015-12-24 (first published: 2015-12-16)
2,380 reads
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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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