High Availability Lingo
You have got to love the way the SQL Server team change the lingo in all of their high availability...
2012-08-13
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SQL Server 365
Cost Savings and Backup Compression
Let me set the scene, one of our internal IT SQL Servers which stores a whole host of performance metrics...
2012-08-08
1,853 reads
Database Tables
Today I was asked for "a list of all tables in all databases" on a particular instance of SQL Server. ...
2012-06-13
882 reads
Rebuilding System Databases
Today’s post is something I thought I would share as there is an awful lot of incorrect commands I have...
2012-04-02
827 reads
Why I don’t like maintenance plans
If you create a maintenance plan (SQL 9.0.3042) to backup databases and select All databases as below;
Then at some point...
2012-03-16
904 reads
How Resilient Is Your Recovery Plan?
In this modern age of technology DBA’s face an ever increasing demand from businesses; our databases must perform, be secure,...
2012-03-14
622 reads
A Script A Day Finished!
Well that's it, my "A Script A Day" series is finished. I hope you found the scripts I provided useful, I've used...
2012-03-03
585 reads
A Script A Day - Day 29 - The Importance of Being Idle
Today’s script is also one I used in my migration on Wednesday. It again uses string manipulation to generate a...
2012-03-02
529 reads
A Script A Day - Day 28 - String Manipulation
Today’s script is one that I used earlier this week. On Thursday I migrated a server from SQL Server 200...
2012-03-02
536 reads
A Script A Day - Day 27 - Missing Database Backups
Today’s script is one I have used many times in the past to check for missing backups. The script will...
2012-02-29
3,493 reads
Blogs
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
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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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