SSC Editorial: On Time, or Not
Is being on time important? I think that might be a revealing interview question. The answer might or might not...
2016-03-24
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SQLBITS 2016 Agenda has been Published
The agenda for this year’s SQLBITs has been published you can find it here http://sqlbits.com/information/event15/Agenda.aspx?20160507
Our very own David Postlethwaite has...
2016-03-24
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.Net 4.6.1 and MultiSubnetFailover
Im not a big clustering/HA expert, but I obviously understand the need for such things to exist
However, the standard...
2016-03-24
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The TempDB in SQL Server
Every SQL Server instance has a shared database named TempDB. It is a database where temporary objects are stored and used by other databases. Because it’s only one database...
2016-03-24
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The TempDB in SQL Server
Every SQL Server instance has a shared database named TempDB. It is a database where temporary objects are stored and used by other databases. Because it’s only one database...
2016-03-24
11 reads
The TempDB in SQL Server
Every SQL Server instance has a shared database named TempDB. It is a database where temporary objects are stored and...
2016-03-24
237 reads
The TempDB in SQL Server
Every SQL Server instance has a shared database named TempDB. It is a database where temporary objects are stored and...
2016-03-24
234 reads
Enormous response from the last promotional campaign
After I posted this blog MDX Cookbook is a popular book, I received another email from my MDX book publisher.
...
2016-03-24
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When a calculated measure is added NON EMPTY stopped working
We use NON EMPTY key word on the rows axis to remove rows with NULL values. It works only when all...
2016-04-04 (first published: 2016-03-24)
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Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server Part 7.1: The Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Kuiper’s Tests
By Steve Bolton
…………“The names statisticians use for non-parametric analyses are misnomers too, in my opinion: Kruskal-Wallis tests and Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics,...
2016-04-06 (first published: 2016-03-24)
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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 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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