SSAS – Automatic Inventory Generation – 24 Columns – HTML Attachment
Inventory is a vital information,whether you’re a consultant or an in-house DBA, you need to have a reliable inventory of...
2013-06-18
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PowerSQL By Prashanth Jayaram
SQLCMD – Explicit and Implicit calls – Examples
The scripting variables can be defined explicitly by using the setvar command or implicitly by using the sqlcmd -v option....
2013-06-12
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PowerShell – Identify Service Account & Other Details of SQL Services – Multi Server Script
One of my friend requested me to give a mutli server script to pull SQL Service related details. Here is...
2013-06-10
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SSAS Cube Backup strategies and Step by Step approach to setup and configure backup
There are different ways to take Cube database backups.
SQL Agent JobXMLA script for backupROBOT jobASCMD commandSSIS PackageSSIS packageAMO (Analysis Management...
2013-06-11 (first published: 2013-06-05)
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SQL- Setup and Configure Backup Report – Step by Step Approach – All listed SQL Instances
One of SQL enthusiast asked me to include the complete code and wanted to schedule a SQL job. I’m trying...
2013-05-30
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SQL – SQL Server Script to Iterate and Pull Data from All SQL Instances – Database Backup
This Post is a continuation of my previous post. Many times, there is a difficulty in pulling the data to...
2013-05-24
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SQL – SQL Server Script to Iterate through All SQL Instances – Example Transaction Log Shrinking
There are many ways to execute SQL’s or T-SQL’s across listed SQL Instances. Most of us might have faced and...
2013-05-20
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Bill Gate’s speech
One of my friend shared this content. I’m just sharing with you all.Good one and I like it pretty much!!!!Bill...
2013-05-16
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SSAS – Find Cube Database Name, Size,Status and Total Size of SSAS Server
We are planning to take SSAS cube database backup since our backup tool does full file system backup in case...
2013-05-15
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PowerSQL – Find Size, Name, LastAccess and Last Modified time of all bak files across ALL Servers
We came across a scenario where database bak files being created from long time which are no more in use...
2013-05-17 (first published: 2013-05-13)
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Blogs
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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The Hidden Security Risks of Role Combination in SSAS Tabular
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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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