Quickly deploying procedure/functions from SSDT (Bypass Publish)
SSDT is great but one thing that is not so great is the performance of the publish. I am not...
2015-11-24
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In-Memory OLTP in SQL 2016
With SQL server 2016 around the corner, I would like to share some of my thought on the usage for...
2015-11-24
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You Have One Job
I’m sure most if not all of you are familiar with the meme “You had one job”. I was reminded...
2015-11-24
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Using the ScriptDom without losing comments
The ScriptDom is cool, it lets you parse T-SQL, play around with the AST (tree of statements) and then generate...
2015-11-24
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Using the ScriptDom without losing comments
The ScriptDom is cool, it lets you parse T-SQL, play around with the AST (tree of statements) and then generate T-SQL again (probably in a different format etc). This...
2015-11-24
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Using the ScriptDom without losing comments
The ScriptDom is cool, it lets you parse T-SQL, play around with the AST (tree of statements) and then generate...
2015-11-24
56 reads
Using the ScriptDom without losing comments
The ScriptDom is cool, it lets you parse T-SQL, play around with the AST (tree of statements) and then generate...
2015-11-24
46 reads
Calculating Table Partition Sizes in Advance
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 7. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-11-23
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Calculating Table Partition Sizes in Advance
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog]
Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 7.
The partitioning includes several major...
2015-11-30 (first published: 2015-11-23)
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Using multiple log files
The transaction log is made up of one or more files that are used sequentially. So in other words if...
2015-11-27 (first published: 2015-11-23)
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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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