Giving Back – #TSQL2sday
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a...
2014-12-09
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SQL DBA With A Beard
Making a Change Log Easier With PowerShell
Having a Change Log is a good thing. A quick and simple place to find out what has changed on...
2014-12-16 (first published: 2014-12-08)
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A look at the SQL Assessment Intelligence Pack in Operational Insights
Operational Insights is a service that has been added in preview to Azure. It enables you to collect, combine, correlate...
2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-24)
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Changing Delay Between Responses for SQL Alerts with Powershell
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on...
2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-18)
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#tsql2sday #60 – Something New Learned – Problem Step Recorder
What is T-SQL Tuesday?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different blogger each month. This blog party...
2014-11-11
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Generating T-SQL Randomly with Powershell
I have a lab on my laptop running various servers so that I can problem solve and learn and recently...
2014-11-05
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Emailing Disk Space Alerting With Powershell
A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening...
2014-11-04
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Number of VLFs and Autogrowth Settings Colour Coded to Excel with PowerShell
So you have read up on VLFs
No doubt you will have read this post by Kimberly Tripp and this one...
2014-10-06
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PowerShell Snippets A Great Learning Tool
When I talk to people about Powershell they often ask how can they easily learn the syntax. Here’s a good...
2014-09-09
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Find Out Which Indexes are on which Filegroups using PowerShell And How To Find Other Information
A short post today to pass on a script I wrote to fulfil a requirement I had.
Which indexes are on...
2014-09-07
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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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