I’m happy to announce the publication of my latest book. The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure is now available on Amazon in both...
2020-07-13
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Azure storage is a Microsoft solution designed to store your data on it with different models (Blobs, Tables, Queue, File Shares, and Disks) to know the differences, usage, High...
2020-07-12
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Press Azure resource providers operations List of all of the available ADF-specific RBAC permissions. Simplifying declarative deployments in Azure The power of What-If within ARM Template deployments. Collecting custom...
2020-07-12
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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...
2020-07-10
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My first go at smokin’ a brisket is documented below. It is summertime and we are stuck at home in isolation, might as well find a new hobby. I...
2020-07-09
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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...
2020-07-09
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I recently needed to ensure that a Power BI imported dataset would be refreshed after populating data in my data mart. I was already using Azure Data Factory to...
2020-07-21 (first published: 2020-07-09)
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Learning Git can be daunting for DBAs. In this 20 minute episode, I discuss why learning a VCS is necessary for DBAs, then give three tips on scoping your...
2020-07-16 (first published: 2020-07-09)
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One of the concepts in Snowflake that I find many struggle with is how constraints are handled. If you come from a traditional database platform such as Microsoft SQL...
2020-07-21 (first published: 2020-07-08)
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Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I needed to write this post because I...
2020-07-20 (first published: 2020-07-08)
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Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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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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