2012-10-05
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2012-10-05
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Presenting “PowerShell: Automating SQL Stats Collection”
On 10th Oct 6.30 PM, I will be presenting “PowerShell: Automating SQL Stats Collection for Performance Tuning”@ at San Francisco...
2012-10-05
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Presenting “PowerShell: Automating SQL Stats Collection”
On 10th Oct 6.30 PM, I will be presenting “PowerShell: Automating SQL Stats Collection for Performance Tuning”@ at San Francisco...
2012-10-05
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Tale of detaching a database which was enabled for replication!
In development environments I prefer to use ‘detach’ database option to move around databases. It’s simple, fast and easy.
Almost all...
2012-10-04
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) How-To: Using BACKUP and RESTORE DATABASE on PDW
Before we get to the backup and restore syntax, its worth noting that the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) appliance architecture offers...
2012-10-04
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SQL Server: Sending Email in HTML Table Format Using TSQL
As part of our DBA life , we have to configure many alert or statistical mails which gives an idea about...
2012-10-04
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SharePoint dependencies
Microsoft has made a big push the last few years to have all its end-user BI tools integrate with SharePoint,...
2012-10-04
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Master Data Services (MDS): Bug deleting an attribute
UPDATE on 11/28/2012: I had this same error when trying to delete a model. Fortunately, SQL Server 2012 SP1 has...
2012-10-04
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Finally, it has happened…
Last month I blogged about my absence from the blogosphere. If you want, you can read about it again – here. Granted, it has been a month and I...
2012-10-04
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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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