How to upload a vagrant file while provision a server
How to upload a vagrant file while provisioning a server
I was recently introduced to vagrant and i found it very interesting. I picked up a task that which is creating...
2019-01-04
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How to upload a vagrant file while provision a server
How to upload a vagrant file while provisioning a server
I was recently introduced to vagrant and i found it very interesting. I picked up a task that which is creating...
2019-01-04
54 reads
Fun Time Friday: New Year! Drones, Autism and SQL Server 2008
Welcome to the first Fun Time Friday of 2019 and with that I'd like to wish a very Happy New Year to our friends, customers and clients.
SQL Server 2008...
2019-01-04
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Fun Time Friday: New Year! Drones, Autism and SQL Server 2008
Welcome to the first Fun Time Friday of 2019 and with that I'd like to wish a very Happy New...
2019-01-04
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Some of my goals for 2019
In late December 2018 I had a discussion with Amanda Martin the PASS Community Manager around things that I would...
2019-01-03
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A New PiHole in the Sky
Last year I set up a PiHole server on my RaspberryPi to help block some ads and malicious stuff (tracking,...
2019-01-11 (first published: 2019-01-03)
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Automating CRUD procedures generation using T-SQL (enhanced).
In this post I will describe the helper procedure that based on metadata generates numerous database objects around views and...
2019-01-03
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Approximate COUNT DISTINCT
We all have written queries that use COUNT DISTINCT to get the unique number of non-NULL values from a table....
2019-01-15 (first published: 2019-01-03)
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What ‘Digital Transformation’ Means, and How You Can Use It to Advance Your Career (video)
I recently spoke at the GroupBy free online conference. It was loads of fun, and the recordings from the event are now available. Here’s the hour long session I...
2019-01-03
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Query Store max size limit is not a hard limit
If you’re on SQL Server 2016 or above, maybe you’re thinking about using the Query Store. That’s good! It’s an...
2019-01-03
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Blogs
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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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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