Coming Soon to Minnesota...Lincoln...and Seattle!!!
It's that time of year when SQLSaturdays start to slow down (in the U.S. anyway) as we march towards Summit...
2018-09-26
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Why you should always build an Azure based VM in a Resource Group
This blog post is based on conversations I witnessed between MVPs around commissioning and more importantly de-commissioning virtual machines (VMs)...
2018-09-26
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Extended Events Made Easy: Using XEvent Profiler
In this post we’ll look at how quick and easy it is to use the XEvent Profiler to create an...
2018-10-08 (first published: 2018-09-25)
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Azure Cognitive Services – Knowledge APIs
This week’s Azure Every Day posts are focused on the different APIs available within Azure Cognitive Services. Today I’ll focus...
2018-09-25
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Practical Refactoring
Today I hosted a webinar with Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim) and we had a fantastic discussion. I was slightly star struck...
2018-09-25
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Running SQL Server 2019 CTP in a Docker container
If you’ve been anywhere near social media this week you may have seen that Microsoft has announced SQL Server 2019.
I...
2018-10-04 (first published: 2018-09-25)
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Where Are Your Data Leaks?
It has been almost impossible to avoid reading about the numerous large-scale data breaches reported on a seemingly daily basis....
2018-10-02 (first published: 2018-09-25)
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Shortchanged with International Money in SQL Server
Imagine you have to perform some salary analysis for your employer International Mega Corp.
The data you have to work with...
2018-10-03 (first published: 2018-09-25)
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Shortchanged with International Money in SQL Server
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Imagine you have to perform some salary analysis for your employer International Mega Corp.
The data you have to work with looks something like this:
DROP...
2018-09-25
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Shortchanged with International Money in SQL Server
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Imagine you have to perform some salary analysis for your employer International Mega Corp.
The data you have to work with looks something like this:
DROP...
2018-09-25
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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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