Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #89
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-06-23
493 reads
Reading, Writing, and Riskmetic-Question of the Day
Reading, Writing, and Riskmetic is another Question of the Day, this one about how to allow developers to understand performance...
2014-06-23
543 reads
SQL Server 2012 || Contained Database
Contained databases are the new feature in SQL Server 2012 and are defined on BOL (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff929071.aspx) as below :
A contained...
2014-06-23
9,306 reads
sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V5.0
These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each of the stored procedures...
2014-06-23
698 reads
Using PowerShell to Build your Azure VM Environment
In a previous post I wrote about Using a Hyper-V VHD in an Azure VM. Today I’d like to show...
2014-06-23
1,656 reads
Introduction to Latches in SQL Server
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-06-23
2,895 reads
Plagiarism: A Community Destroyed
Personal Thoughts
Just to be clear, I don't expect everyone to have my same thoughts. I personally fully support SQLServerCentral and...
2014-06-23
501 reads
ExpressProfiler: Yet another "when and why" story.
Core of ExpressProfiler was born about 8 years ago when I worked for a company whose mission was the migration...
2014-06-23
759 reads
Microsoft Azure Data Services
Azure Data Services
Microsoft’s Azure data services provides you with a method to enhance your enterprise architecture and business intelligence options. ...
2014-06-21
1,140 reads
Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 31 (“Memory Pressure and Row Group Sizes”)
Continuation from the previous 30 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
This blog post is focusing on one of the most important real...
2014-06-21
235 reads
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...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
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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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