Why would you want to name a transaction?
Something that i keep seeing in documentation, in forum code and in real systems is transactions that have names
BEGIN TRANSACTION...
2015-12-04 (first published: 2015-12-01)
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Querying the Plan Cache
I love working with indexes, and I need to know what’s using them to work on them intelligently. Most of...
2015-12-08 (first published: 2015-12-01)
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The Discomfort Zone
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I read a book entitled The Phoenix Project. This book has been in my Kindle library...
2015-12-04 (first published: 2015-12-01)
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Summon Blue Screens of Death (for testing purposes only, of course)
Today I had a need to manually trigger and sustain a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) inside a Windows Server...
2015-11-30
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Monday Morning SQL Break – November 30, 2015
It’s Monday time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me on...
2015-11-30
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You should always have an “I got hit by a bus” backup plan
You have an on call, you have a business continuity plan, you have a disaster recovery plan but what happens...
2015-12-07 (first published: 2015-11-30)
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Row-Level Security part 2 – Controlling Write Access
My previous post was focused on controlling read operations. With the latest enhancements to the row-level security, it is now possible...
2015-12-03 (first published: 2015-11-29)
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Columnstore Indexes – part 73 (“Big Delta-Stores with Nonclustered Columnstore”)
Continuation from the previous 72 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Since the very first version of SQL...
2015-11-28
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Python Command Line Calls
There was a time I worked in a company any we lived in the command line. This was in the...
2015-11-27
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Find duplicate indexes in SSDT
Update new download location is https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/435e7238-0e64-4667-8980-5...
Duplicate indexes, one of the most pointless things you can do to a table that...
2015-11-27
990 reads
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 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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