Management Studio Find & Replace Using Regular Expressions
In my last Management Studio tip, I demonstrated how you can drag and drop column names to a query window. The only part I do not like about that...
2020-07-28
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Azure Cosmos DB High Availability and Disaster Recovery Architecture
Part 6 in Azure Cosmos DB architecture Series Keep Learning and Spread your Knowledge if you don’t read the previous parts I highly recommend you to take a look...
2020-07-28
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Building an Azure Architecture Diagram
One of the challenges I have at times is illustrating how I’d set up a particular system. Not the technical details, the visual ones. I can use boxes and...
2020-07-27
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Daily Coping 27 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...
2020-07-27
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SQL Server Stretch DB to Azure
Since SQL Server 2016 we could leverage Microsoft Azure to dynamically move “cold” portions of data away from on-premises storage for longer retention time periods. Whilst in theory being...
2020-07-27
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Azure Cosmos DB API Architecture
Again, still we have a lot of information we can spread our knowledge on it for Cosmos DB today I will talk about Cosmos DB API options and How...
2020-07-27
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Recapping SQL Saturday Albany 2020 (virtual)
This weekend was SQL Saturday Albany 2020. This was my third time attending the Albany event, my second time presenting, and my first virtual SQL Saturday. As always, Ed...
2020-07-26
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Getting Started with Stream Analytics
Resources
Resources
If you want a schema reference for the json Application Insights produces // [Azure Application Insights Data Model // Microsoft Docs
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If you want to visualize last 90 days of...
2020-07-25
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Saving My Garmin Data
With the Garmin outage, I was a little worried about my data. As a result, I wanted to ensure I could get information off of my device and at...
2020-07-24
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Calculating Application Availability in the Cloud
When deploying business critical applications in the cloud you want to make sure they are highly available. The good news is that if you plan properly, you can achieve...
2020-08-05 (first published: 2020-07-24)
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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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