Which Secure Protocols are Allowed on Your Servers
A script to have handy to tell you which schannel protocols are enabled / disabled for PCI or certificate compliance. This one works well for local servers. If you...
2015-12-15
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Which Secure Protocols are Allowed on Your Servers
A script to have handy to tell you which schannel protocols are enabled / disabled for PCI or certificate compliance.
This one...
2015-12-22 (first published: 2015-12-15)
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Giving Thanks Around the Holidays
In the West, the holiday season summons different memories and plans for different people. The thought of gorging on a...
2015-12-25 (first published: 2015-12-15)
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2015-12-15
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Benefits from Data Lifecycle Management
I spend a lot of time talking about the need for automation within your databases, especially in support of development,...
2015-12-22 (first published: 2015-12-15)
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When naming transactions causes an error
For the last part of the series on transactions, I’m going to look at a problem that I ran across...
2015-12-21 (first published: 2015-12-15)
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Model needs exclusive lock
Ran into an issue where a developer was trying to create a database and was denied due to no ability...
2015-12-15
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Model needs exclusive lock
Ran into an issue where a developer was trying to create a database and was denied due to no ability...
2015-12-15
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Installation SQL Server 2016
Here is some of the installation processes(https://thakurvinay.wordpress.com/category/installation/) Below is very nice step-by -step installation process for SQL Server 2016: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/installing-sql-server-2016.html
2015-12-15
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Model needs exclusive lock
Ran into an issue where a developer was trying to create a database and was denied due to no ability...
2015-12-15
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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...
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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