Beware! Beware of Unintended Changes When Altering Columns!
(last updated: 2019-01-15 @ 19:50 EST / 2019-01-16 @ 00:50 UTC )
I haven’t seen a lot written about these particular behaviors so I...
2019-01-28 (first published: 2019-01-15)
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Inspector V1.3 now available
Inspector V1.3 is now available on GitHub.
We have updated the sample report for you to play with which includes the...
2019-01-15
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SQL FAILS with Andy Mallon, Erin Stellato, and Mr. Anonymous!
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While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes to our servers and data, accidents do occasionally happen.
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2019-01-15
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SQL FAILS with Andy Mallon, Erin Stellato, and Mr. Anonymous!
Watch this week's video on YouTube
While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes to our servers and data, accidents do occasionally happen.
Sometimes...
2019-01-15
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SQL FAILS with Andy Mallon, Erin Stellato, and Mr. Anonymous!
Watch this week’s video on YouTube.
While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes...
2019-01-25 (first published: 2019-01-15)
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Moving off SQL Server 2008 / R2 – What can Azure offer?
You will very likely know that SQL Server 2008 / R2 end of support is on July 9th 2019. Not that...
2019-01-15
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Extended Events: Detect Implicit Conversions that affect execution plans
Implicit Conversions – Introduction
In this blog post, I’ll explain and demonstrate how to use Extended Events to detect Implicit Conversions that...
2019-01-24 (first published: 2019-01-15)
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Time Animation with ArcGIS Maps in Power BI
(2019-Jan-14) Dynamic maps with dynamic visualization usually attract my attention, especially when I look at the satellite images of various cloud...
2019-01-24 (first published: 2019-01-14)
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My New Year Challenge: The Kessel Run and Keto
The Kessel Run Medal for 2019Hello Dear Reader, it's been a while since we talked. Part of the new year is setting goals. I plan to blog more. I...
2019-01-14
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My New Year Challenge: The Kessel Run and Keto
The Kessel Run Medal for 2019Hello Dear Reader, it's been a while since we talked. Part of the new year...
2019-01-14
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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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