Notifying a Teams Channel of a SQL Agent Job result
Following on from yesterdays post about creating an overview of SQL Agent Job Results and sending it to a Teams channel, I was given another challenge Can you write...
2020-07-29
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Should I Transform My Data In My SQL Query?
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Imagine you need to join two tables of data and filter the results. Perhaps you also need to convert some of the values for...
2020-07-29
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Should I Transform My Data In My SQL Query?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Imagine you need to join two tables of data and filter the results. Perhaps you also need to convert some of the values for...
2020-07-29
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Should I Transform My Data In My SQL Query?
Watch this week’s video on YouTube. Imagine you need to join two tables of data and filter the results. Perhaps you also need to convert some of the values...
2020-08-10 (first published: 2020-07-29)
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How Azure RBAC Work
Azure RBAC is Role-based Access Control it is the gateway for any access (access management of Azure resources) and this service will help you to manage the access and...
2020-07-29
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Transforming JSON data with the help of Azure Data Factory - Part 5 - Comparing it with Databricks
(2020-July-29) There is a well known and broadly advertised message from Microsoft that Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a code-free environment to help you to create ...
2020-08-07 (first published: 2020-07-29)
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Daily Coping 28 Jul 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-07-28
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Certified Azure Administrator (AZ-104) – Passed!!!
Back in March I saw a Tweet about the beta Microsoft Certification Exam AZ-104 program was looking for 300 candidates to take the exam by May 31st. Since moving...
2020-07-28
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Database Fundamentals #28: Creating a Primary Key Using T-SQL
There are actually a couple of ways to create a primary key with T-SQL. You can use the ALTER TABLE script to add a primary key to an existing...
2020-08-06 (first published: 2020-07-28)
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Sending a SQL Agent Job results overview to a Microsoft Teams Channel
Microsoft Teams is fantastic for collaboration. It enables groups of people, teams if you like to be able to communicate, collaborate on documents, hold meetings and much much more....
2020-08-06 (first published: 2020-07-28)
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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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