Speaking at SQLSaturday #62–Tampa
I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday #62 – Tampa this Saturday, January 15th. I’ll be presenting: Why I Use Stored Procedures With the...
2011-01-10
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Fun with Extended Properties in SQL Server 2008
Most technical professionals don’t seem to enjoy writing and maintaining documentation for their databases. I know that documentation falls pretty...
2011-01-10
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31 Days of SSIS – Pivot Transformation (10/31)
A few months back, well before the 31 Days of SSIS started, I had been playing with the Pivot Transformation. ...
2011-01-10
1,194 reads
Top 10 SQL #Awesomesauce for 2010
Here at MidnightDBA.com, we’re all about you! And us! It’s just us, and you. Which is why I’ve put together...
2011-01-10
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #62–Tampa
I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday #62 – Tampa this Saturday, January 15th. I’ll be presenting:
Why I Use Stored Procedures
With the proliferation...
2011-01-10
773 reads
SSC Editorial: Clouds in our Future
I wrote Clouds in our Future to see if I could spark a good conversation about the mental shift required...
2011-01-10
611 reads
How SQL Server stores indexes on variable length columns
In the last months I had done a lot of performance tuning workshops, and there is
almost the same question: How...
2011-01-10
2,385 reads
Updated SSMSDeploy Demo Video
This is just a quick note before I head off for work that I have made a new demo video...
2011-01-10
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SSAS – Hiding Unknown Member
You may have noticed when creating Analysis Services dimensions that a member is created in all of your attributes that...
2011-01-10
14,909 reads
PASSMN Call for Presenters and Sponsors
Before the year gets going too far and things are too planned out, I thought I would see if there...
2011-01-10
419 reads
Blogs
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...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
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The Hidden Security Risks of Role Combination in SSAS Tabular
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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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