Daily Coping 10 June 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...
2020-06-10
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Creating a Repository from VSCode–#SQLNewBlogger
I’ve been working with a few different git clients, and trying to write some articles to help people get started. As I do this, I thought it was interesting...
2020-06-25 (first published: 2020-06-10)
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Azure Monitor and Azure SQL Database
This is all about enabling diagnostics telemetry for Azure SQL databases. For Azure SQL Database there are quite a few options to select from. Below shows the diagnostic settings...
2020-06-10
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Principals, Securables, Permissions – SQL Server Access Components
[MSSQLFUN & Decode ITeS becomes a family of 1600 individuals across the globe. Please join us on Facebook & YouTube.] SQL Server Access Authentication SQL Server Security is the primary DBA...
2020-06-09
55 reads
SQL 2019 UDF (User defined function) inlining
SQL Server 2019 brings a lot of great new features. Many are introduced by the IQP (Intelligent Query Processing) features and greatly improve query performance. Some time ago I...
2020-06-24 (first published: 2020-06-09)
577 reads
Adding the Social Headline Topic
The world is changing, and the activism is infectious. I’ve tried to be fairly apolitical and unoffensive for most of my career. I definitely have not always succeeded, but...
2020-06-09
15 reads
OPENJSON and CROSS APPLY
OPENJSON is pretty central to manipulating JSON documents in T-SQL. As we’ve seen, we can use a default schema that will return metadata about the JSON document or we...
2020-06-09
22 reads
OPENJSON and CROSS APPLY
OPENJSON is pretty central to manipulating JSON documents in T-SQL. As we’ve seen, we can use a default schema that will return metadata about the JSON document or we...
2020-06-24 (first published: 2020-06-09)
6,918 reads
TSQL Tuesday #127 – Non SQL Tips and Tricks – Windows
This month’s (#127) T-SQL Tuesday is brought by Kenneth Fisher (B | T) and he asked about Non SQL Tips and tricks. As a Windows user I know there...
2020-06-09
33 reads
TSQL Tuesday
This month’s (#127) T-SQL Tuesday is brought by Kenneth Fisher (B | T) and he asked about Non SQL Tips and tricks. As a Windows user I know there...
2020-06-09
22 reads
Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
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...
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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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