SQL Server: String Pattern Matching
It is common scenario that, we might need to extract the data from the SQL server based on some pattern....
2012-09-13
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Yesterday I was hacked
That’s right, for all my years in IT yesterday I was the victim of a vicious and deeply distressing incident....
2012-09-13
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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
I have spent a lot of time on the road this year with work but over the summer I was...
2012-09-13
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Labor Day Bloopers
The raw footage of all the mistakes I’ve made since the Fourth of July.
Part 1
Part 2
Filed under: Blog Tagged: Humor,...
2012-09-12
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SQL Server: Understanding GAM and SGAM Pages
We know that SQL server stores the data in 8 KB pages. An extent is made up of 8 physically contiguous...
2012-09-12
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Interview on RunAsRadio #281 with Richard Campbell
I recently had a chance to record a 33 minute podcast interview on RunAs Radio #281 with Richard Campbell, where...
2012-09-12
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Sometimes Failure Is An Option
Wouldn’t it be nice if failure was an option? You could go along in life, screw it all up and...
2012-09-12
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Master Data Services Terminology Overview
When moving from a data warehouse world to MDM, there is some new terminology to learn. Each of the terms...
2012-09-12
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Pearls in the Ocean – Part 1
In our day to day life with SQL Server, We refer web for many reasons.
This includes understanding new SQL...
2012-09-12
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Misc Reading for September 12, 2012
Sharing some stuff I’ve read recently that I found interesting – and that you may find interesting!
Help More, Judge Less. I’ll...
2012-09-12
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How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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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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