Export AdventureWorksDW2017 to Excel for a Power BI Demo with Export-Excel
Have you ever wanted to export an entire SQL Server database to Excel file? Yeah, me neither. Until yesterday, when...
2019-03-28 (first published: 2019-03-14)
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Querying temp tables across a linked server.
And if you are still reading you probably fit into one of the following categories.
Not a DBAA relatively new DBALike...
2019-03-27 (first published: 2019-03-14)
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SQL Server – max server memory
Another re-post of a video from last year, this time showing you an in-built protection of setting max server memory...
2019-03-14
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#ITechDay in Warsaw
We were enjoying Thursday on conference in Warsaw. We have arrived pretty lately but easily saw the awesome atmosphere there....
2019-03-13
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Achieving SQL Server HA/DR with a mix of Always On Availability Groups and SANless SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances
Introduction
The topic of mixing SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) with Always On Availability Groups (AG) is pretty well documented....
2019-03-13
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Quick tip: Zoom in Azure Data Studio
If you finally have given a try to Azure Data Studio, and if you use it on a regular basis, maybe you want to customize it to suit your...
2019-03-13
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Does SQL Server 2019 run on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
Yes. Here’s the proof from an output of SELECT @@VERSION: [crayon-5c98bf6b3202b962253620/] Here’s a screenshot of me running mssql-cli on the...
2019-03-13
695 reads
PASS Summit 2019 Call for Speakers is Open – How I Sketch Out My Submission Ideas
Are you interested in speaking at the Professional Association for SQL Server’s annual Summit conference? The call for speakers is now open, and you may submit up to three...
2019-03-13
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Database Development Gone Wrong
I recently shared a story about how I was personally responsible for a development project going off the rails (and oh boy, did it go off the rails). It’s...
2019-03-13
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Database Development Gone Wrong
I recently shared a story about how I was personally responsible for a development project going off the rails (and...
2019-03-13
432 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...
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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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