From PASS Summit to MVP Summit
This was a really great week!
So many sessions by great speakers, lots of community events, parties and fun. I met...
2015-10-30
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Catching specific statements using new MI008 "Statement used" rule
Imagine that you want (for some reason) prohibit usage of some statement (or statements), eg - CURSOR
How can you find if...
2015-11-05 (first published: 2015-10-30)
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the game
So things are messed up. Bad. I mean, you lost a $2.7 Billion Dollar Secret Blimp or your team accidentally sent...
2015-10-30
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Tricks and Treats with XE
With the proximity to Halloween, it's not hard (knowing me) to figure out why I originally decided to terminate this series on the Eve of Halloween day. Join me...
2015-10-30
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Tricks and Treats with XE
Halloween is a great time of year. It is unfortunate that it is just one day of the year. That...
2015-10-30
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How to find blocked processes
Blocked processes are often a big problem for DBAs, because they’re difficult to monitor. We receive desperate calls saying “Everything...
2015-11-06 (first published: 2015-10-30)
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PASS 2015 Session Report – Understanding Real World Big Data Scenarios
PASS 2015 continues in Seattle, and today was my session at 1045am on Using Azure Machine Learning (ML) to Predict Seattle House Prices. The background and info on my session...
2015-10-30
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PASS 2015 Session Report – Understanding Real World Big Data Scenarios
PASS 2015 continues in Seattle, and today was my session at 1045am on Using Azure Machine Learning (ML) to Predict Seattle...
2015-10-30
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PASS Summit Key Note Day 2 – Recap
As I sit here in an offshoot of the convention center, I started reflecting back to this morning’s keynote for...
2015-10-29
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Columnstore Indexes – part 71 (“Change Data Capture, Change Tracking & Temporal”)
Continuation from the previous 70 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
In the SQL Server world of data...
2015-10-29
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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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