Daily Coping 26 May 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...
2020-05-26
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Use session_context to create a “variable” that lasts between batches.
The other day I had a brief conversation with Itzik Ben-Gan (about|twitter) on twitter and I have to tell you ... Continue reading
2020-05-26
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TIL: Measure-DbaBackupThroughput
Today’s dbatools command: Measure-DbaBackupThroughput This one’s a smaller command, but that doesn’t mean it’s without use. If you need information on backup speeds (throughput) or early warning of possible...
2020-05-26
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SSAS Tabular – Process Add vs Partition Merge
Time keeps on running and as I promised in my last article I would like to compare the Process ADD vs Partition Merge technique. In the previous blog I...
2020-06-11 (first published: 2020-05-25)
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More Azure Blob Storage enhancements
I recently blogged about Query Acceleration for ADLS, which also applies to Azure Blob storage. Now there are more new features for blog storage that I will talk about....
2020-06-11 (first published: 2020-05-25)
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Daily Coping 25 May 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...
2020-05-25
24 reads
A Byte of Redgate–Bonus Queso Recipe
As part of the Community Circle effort at Redgate, we’ve released a cookbook: A Byte of Redgate. You can read about the story in this blog, and it was...
2020-06-05 (first published: 2020-05-25)
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Export Deadlocks to file from system_health Extended Event using PowerShell
Just a quick post as may help any of you searching for this. Scenario Client wants to analyze most recent deadlocks that happened on a specific instance. They asked...
2020-06-09 (first published: 2020-05-25)
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Ghost is taking full backup and breaking my backup chain . Be careful with Azure VM backup on VM having SQL server installation
I believe that I have strong knowledge in SQL Server backup and recovery process, but recently there was an incident which shook my confidence. I was working on a...
2020-05-25
22 reads
Ghost is taking full backup and breaking my backup chain . Be careful with Azure VM backup on VM having SQL server installation
I believe that I have strong knowledge in SQL Server backup and recovery process, but recently there was an incident which shook my confidence. I was working on a...
2020-06-08 (first published: 2020-05-25)
1,836 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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