Using Temporal Tables for Slowly Changing Dimensions
One of my favorite recent additions to SQL Server is the ability to use temporal tables to retain change history. As I wrote in an earlier post on this...
2019-04-02
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Testing with Temporary Stored Procedures
A while back I learned that it’s possible to create temporary stored procedures in SQL Server. I never put that knowledge into practice however because I struggled to think of...
2019-04-16 (first published: 2019-04-02)
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Testing with Temporary Stored Procedures
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A while back I learned that it's possible to create temporary stored procedures in SQL Server.
I never put that knowledge into practice however because I...
2019-04-02
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Testing with Temporary Stored Procedures
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A while back I learned that it's possible to create temporary stored procedures in SQL Server.
I never put that knowledge into practice however because I...
2019-04-02
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Distributed Replay Utility – The Search for the Cure
The Complaint(s) When I was young, I went to nursing school. In school, we were taught that in order to come up with a proper diagnosis, the doctor first...
2019-04-01
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PASS Community And Mentorship
Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor as defined by Webster’s dictionary. I believe it involved a little more than that. It also involves investing...
2019-04-01
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PASS Community And Mentorship
Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor as defined by Webster’s dictionary. I believe it involved a little more than that. It also involves investing...
2019-04-01
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PASS Community And Mentorship
Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor as defined by Webster’s dictionary. I believe it involved a little more than that. It also involves investing...
2019-04-12 (first published: 2019-04-01)
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Presentation 5: Presenting Performance Tuning with Memory Grants
So it’s about a week after SQL Saturday Chicago 2019. The event was amazing, tons of great people and in a great venue. Here’s the details of what happened...
2019-04-15 (first published: 2019-04-01)
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Jobs That Beat The Caring Out Of You
I was inspired by Jen McCown’s story here. Read that first. It’s WAY better than mine. This is not an April Fools post. Fools are involved, but none were...
2019-04-01
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Blogs
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...
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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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