BIxPress 3.5–Now With More Awesome!
Pragmatic Works has now released version 3.5 of the award-winning BIxPress software! For those not familiar with BIxPress it’s a...
2012-05-21
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What happens when a SSAS Tabular model exceeds memory?
If you are using the Tabular model in SSAS, it will use the xVelocity technology to load your entire database...
2012-05-24 (first published: 2012-05-21)
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SQL Server 2012 Certifications Revamped
Reprinted from my Database Weekly editorial.
Forget what you thought you knew about SQL Server certification, as Microsoft has completely redesigned...
2012-05-21
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SQLServerCentral.com Track Offered at 2012 SQL Server Connections in Las Vegas this Fall
As we have done for the last several years, SQLServerCentral.com will be offering its own track at SQL Server Connections...
2012-05-24 (first published: 2012-05-21)
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How to restore the tail end of a transaction log
Have you ever tried to restore a backup over an existing database and receive an error stating the tail of...
2012-05-25 (first published: 2012-05-21)
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SQLSaturday #119 Chicago – In the Books
As I write this, I’m enjoying a margherita pizza and a Miller High Life in my room. The SQLSaturday #119...
2012-05-21
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Is Dynamic T-SQL a Good Design Pattern?
In a recent discussion it was suggested to me that not only is dynamic T-SQL useful for things like catch-all...
2012-05-21
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Denali – Day 21: Security
Denali – Day 21: Security
Security wise Microsoft sql server is going great and on compare with other RDBMS in the market...
2012-05-21
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SSRS: FORMAT option for milliseconds
Some of our reports have hyperlink enabled on few metrics which points to an internal website. Recently there was a...
2012-05-21
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MS SQL Server : Nested Transaction and Partial Rollback of Transaction
Couple of days back, one of my colleague came to me and asked about partial rollback of a transaction.He was trying...
2012-05-20
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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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