Using Docker to run Integration Tests for dbachecks
My wonderful friend André Kamman wrote a fantastic blog post this week SQL Server Container Instances via Cloudshell about how...
2019-02-06 (first published: 2019-01-19)
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SQL DBA With A Beard
Running Windows and Linux SQL Containers together
Just for fun I decided to spend Christmas Eve getting Windows and Linux SQL containers running together.
WARNING
This is NOT a...
2019-01-04 (first published: 2018-12-24)
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Getting SQL Services, Starting, Stopping and Restarting them with dbatools
There was a question in the #dbatools slack channel
Getting dbatools
dbatools enables you to administer SQL Server with PowerShell. To get...
2018-12-03
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SQL Server Availability Group FailoverDetection Utility PowerShell Function Improvements – Named Instances, Archiving Data, Speed
In my last post I wrote about a new function for gathering the data and running the FailoverDetection utility by...
2018-12-19 (first published: 2018-12-01)
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Gathering all the Logs and Running the Availability Group Failover Detection Utility with PowerShell
30/11/2018 – Function has been updated to deal with named instances.
Last week the Tiger Team released their Availability Group Failover Detection...
2018-12-17 (first published: 2018-11-28)
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Getting the SQL Version from a backup using dbatools ………. on PowerShell Core
Following an upgrade to SQL Server the backup share had a number of backups, some from the old version and...
2018-12-12 (first published: 2018-11-26)
1,729 reads
PASS Summit, SQLTrain and My First US SQL Saturday
Next week is the week when I used to dread looking at Twitter and especially the #PASSsummit hashtag, watching all of...
2018-10-31
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Checking Trace Flags with dbachecks, online docs and PSPowerHour
It’s been a few weeks since i have blogged as I have been busy with a lot of other things....
2018-10-10 (first published: 2018-09-29)
1,966 reads
Deploying To a Power Bi Report Server with PowerShell
Just a quick post to share some code that I used to solve a problem I had recently.
I needed to...
2018-09-04 (first published: 2018-08-21)
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Using the PowerShell AST to find a ForEach Method
In dbachecks we enable people to see what checks are available by running Get-DbcCheck. This gives a number of properties including...
2018-08-16
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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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