ETL Antipattern: Start With Writing Code
In this first post in my series on ETL Antipatterns, I’m going to discuss one of the most common missteps when building an extract-transform-load (ETL) process: jumping straight into...
2020-12-12
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In this first post in my series on ETL Antipatterns, I’m going to discuss one of the most common missteps when building an extract-transform-load (ETL) process: jumping straight into...
2020-12-12
37 reads
We’re rounding the corner to the second half of December, which means it’s time for my favorite holiday: Festivus! Like many of you, I enjoy gathering around the Festivus...
2020-12-12
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I was just working on a new SQL job, and part of creating the job was adding a few new tables to our DBA maintenance database to hold data...
2020-12-21 (first published: 2020-12-11)
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I know that this isn’t the correct name, though the by-laws still list this as the corporation. Perhaps this is one more sign of the failure to evolve and...
2020-12-11
55 reads
Recently, I was working on one of the performance tuning assignment with an esteemed client. The size of their databases were growing tremendously. Growth in the database size is...
2020-12-22 (first published: 2020-12-11)
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Unequivocally, yes on-premises SQL Server Instances are still relevant. While I’m a firm believer that the cloud is not a fad and is not going away, it’s just an...
2020-12-11
7 reads
Unequivocally, yes on-premises SQL Server Instances are still relevant. While I’m a firm believer that the cloud is not a fad and is not going away, it’s just an...
2020-12-11
11 reads
Unequivocally, yes on-premises SQL Server Instances are still relevant. While I’m a firm believer that the cloud is not a fad and is not going away, it’s just an...
2020-12-11
10 reads
Unequivocally, yes on-premises SQL Server Instances are still relevant. While I’m a firm believer that the cloud is not a fad and is not going away, it’s just an...
2020-12-18 (first published: 2020-12-11)
715 reads
Unequivocally, yes on-premises SQL Server Instances are still relevant. While I’m a firm believer that the cloud is not a fad and is not going away, it’s just an...
2020-12-11
8 reads
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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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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