Compressing Encrypted Backups
A common requirement, whether it be based out of pure want or truly out of necessity, is to make a...
2015-08-11
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Replace Blank Values to NULL in SSIS
Blank values are annoying, anywhere and everywhere. If your source system contains them, here’s how to convert blank values to NULL in...
2015-08-11
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Database Master Keys can have more than one password.
Our subject for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party (#69) is Encryption, hosted by a guy with an awesome first...
2015-08-11
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10 Signs You’re Enjoying Your DBA Career Too Much
Most database professional recognize they have a good career path, and mostly enjoy the work they do. It’s possible to cross the...
2015-08-11
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Red Gate in the City - DLM Training workshop & UG in NYC - August 27, 2015
We have another great 1-DAY training workshop coming to New York City at MS NYC HQ 11 Times Square on...
2015-08-20 (first published: 2015-08-11)
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What is DBCC?
What is really mean by DBCC and what do people mean when they say DBCC?
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2015-08-11
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What is DBCC?
If I ask you what is DBCC, what would your answer be?
I want you to think about that one for...
2015-08-11
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Using Qure Profiler To Benchmark Tuning Progress
the problem of monster views
I’ve been working with tuning an application that performs a lot of Entity framework calls,...
2015-08-10
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Generating Estimated Plan and the Plan Cache
Does generating an Estimated Plan cause that plan to be loaded into the plan cache?
No.
What? Still here? You want more?...
2015-08-18 (first published: 2015-08-10)
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To AutoGrow or not?
Note: This is a repost of an older blog by Sean that’s still applicable. We’ve updated it with a note...
2015-08-10
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Blogs
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...
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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