Why I don’t like maintenance plans
If you create a maintenance plan (SQL 9.0.3042) to backup databases and select All databases as below;
Then at some point...
2012-03-16
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I’m Not a Bozo!
Something fun for Friday, this was a gift from the client I work with to lighten things up and do...
2012-03-16
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SQL Roundup – 03/16-2012
Howdy! I was flying last week, and for the first time i sat facing a flight attendant. You don’t actually...
2012-03-16
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Help I'm not Sysadmin!
I am currently working on some client servers to upgrade multiple SQL 2008 R2 Express instances to 2008 R2 Standard. ...
2012-03-16
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March #Meme15 – Facebook
It’s the early morning of the 16th, and time to write my #meme15 post. Remember, these are due on or...
2012-03-16
863 reads
1 year old sandwich
It's been an interesting day. It was the 1 year anniversary of SQLSandwiches today. It was also my last day working...
2012-03-16
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Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 3: PowerPivot
Today I’ll be continuing in a blog series designed to help you decide which presentation tool is best for your...
2012-03-21 (first published: 2012-03-16)
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Execution Plans – Merge Join
The Merge Join is a Physical Operation when joining 2 sets of data that are in the same order.
There...
2012-03-15
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Columnstore Indexs
Columnstore Indexes for Fast DW
The SQL Server 11.0 release (2012) introduces a new data warehouse query acceleration feature based on...
2012-03-19 (first published: 2012-03-15)
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Security and Permissions presentation from the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group Meeting, 3/14/2012
Last night I presented a new presentation I'm working to add to my inventory, SQL Server Permission and Security. This...
2012-03-15
594 reads
Blogs
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...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
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The Hidden Security Risks of Role Combination in SSAS Tabular
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Hidden Security Risks of...
The Empty Aggregate
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Empty Aggregate
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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