Price increase for Azure in Canadian dollars
On 1 December 2018, Microsoft is increasing Azure subscription prices in Canadian dollars by 5%. The following is taken directly...
2018-11-28
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A curious case of case when and Null values
For some reason I have always written my Case statements using the following logic:
SELECT
CASE
WHEN @Priority = 1 THEN 'Very High'
WHEN @Priority...
2018-12-12 (first published: 2018-11-28)
2,836 reads
How to be an MVP Book
When it comes to characteristics of an MVP, the two groups (geek and jock) are no longer at the opposite ends of the spectrum. Rather, they are very similar...
2018-11-28
12 reads
How to be an MVP Book
How to be an MVP in LIFE
One of the fun things about being involved in the community is the opportunity...
2018-11-28
303 reads
Oh Query, Query, Query
I thought I would post this a bit early so everyone can memorize the words before Hanukka starts next week.
I...
2018-12-18 (first published: 2018-11-28)
2,761 reads
Early Bird SQL Bits Pricing
You can register today and save for the next few days. It’s only £799 for the full SQL Bits 2019...
2018-11-28
321 reads
Gathering all the Logs and Running the Availability Group Failover Detection Utility with PowerShell
30/11/2018 – Function has been updated to deal with named instances.
Last week the Tiger Team released their Availability Group Failover Detection...
2018-12-17 (first published: 2018-11-28)
2,003 reads
PASS Summit 2018 - A Lesson in Personal Branding
Last year at PASS Summit 2017, I heard a number of comments related to people not recognizing me without the hat in my social media photo/avatar. The linked post...
2018-11-28
8 reads
Midlands PASS Meetings for January and February 2019
Midlands PASS won’t be holding a meeting in December. Too much going on! However, we are hosting meetings in January...
2018-11-27
212 reads
Should I load structured data into my data lake?
With data lakes becoming very popular, a common question I have been hearing often from customers is, “Should I load structured/relational data into my data lake?”. I talked about...
2018-11-27
167 reads
Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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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...
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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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