Deployment Contributor Logger
Niche tool of the day If you know what a deployment contributor is and have wanted to see what steps were in a plan and have got bored setting...
2015-09-30
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Session Action Metadata
Knowing how to access the deployed session metadata and the event metadata attached to that session, I will now begin the dive into how to find the same relevant...
2015-09-30
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Session Action Metadata
In a previous article, I introduced the core concept of Actions. In that article, I explained that an Action is...
2015-09-30
1,153 reads
New SSRS features in SQL 2016 CTP 2.4
SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.4 hasn’t been released yet (any day now I guess), but someone was apparently very eager...
2015-09-30
2,175 reads
Updating a view
I was recently asked how to update views. Specifically the question was about using triggers to update a view.
So...
2015-10-12 (first published: 2015-09-30)
3,112 reads
Utility link for excel import to SQL
Utility link for excel import to SQL
Save Excel Data into Databases
http://www.savetodb.com/Connect to databases, edit data, and save changes back. Edit data...
2015-09-30
446 reads
What’s happening in Asia Pacific?
TweetG’day,
I really am going to make an effort to blog more, and this post is really the start of that.
I...
2015-09-30
1,202 reads
SQL Licensing
Recently, there are lots of questions about SQL licenses, many of them came from the fact that they starting to upgrade to 2012/2014 from their old 2005 servers as...
2015-09-30
25 reads
Bitwise XOR in DAX
In T-SQL and other languages we have bitwise XOR natively supported; the T-SQL operator is simply ^. Here’s the explanation of...
2015-10-08 (first published: 2015-09-29)
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Data Warehouse from the Ground Up at SQL Saturday Orlando, FL on Oct. 10th
SQL Saturday #442 is upon us and yours truly will be presenting in Orlando, Florida on October 10th alongside Mitchell...
2015-09-29
1,033 reads
Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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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...
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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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