Thoughts on the 2015 PASS Election
We had a decent election this year. Thanks to all four candidates – Argenis Fernandez, Jen Stirrup, Ryan Adams, and Tim...
2015-09-25
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The Extended Event GUI
The Extended Events GUI provides a visual access to the Extended Events engine that can help to better understand the XEvents Engine and how a Session is built.
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2015-09-25
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The Extended Event GUI
In the previous article in this series I shared the basics around assembling an XEvent session. The method used in...
2015-10-01 (first published: 2015-09-25)
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SQL Server SSIS: ReplaceNull
One of widespread problems in SSIS packages is to replace NULL values with some specific value. Unfortunately, before it was not a simple task as Integration Services didn’t have...
2015-09-25
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SQL Server SSIS: ReplaceNull
One of widespread problems in SSIS packages is to replace NULL values with some specific value. Unfortunately, before it was not a simple task as Integration Services didn’t have...
2015-09-25
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SQL Server SSIS: ReplaceNull
One of widespread problems in SSIS packages is to replace NULL values with some specific value. Unfortunately, before it was...
2015-09-25
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Azure Virtual Machine Blog Series – Changing the size of a VM
I’m starting a new blog series on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines, and my goal is to write blog posts exclusively on...
2015-09-30 (first published: 2015-09-24)
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I Was Once a Very Crappy Carpenter + SQL Bolts to Buzzwords
Tonight I spoke to Dr. Alkadi's CMPS 411 class, which was hijacked by the Hammond .NET User Group onsite at...
2015-09-24
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Use SCOPE_IDENTITY()–SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2015-10-02 (first published: 2015-09-24)
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Assembling a Session
With the core concepts in place as a good foundation to Extended Events, we start pushing these things together to help with assembling a session in Extended Events.
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2015-09-24
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Blogs
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...
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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