Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 1
In this series of articles I will be sharing the common mistakes in SQL Server. I am certain that this is going to be very interesting read, here is...
2023-09-18
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SQL Server Citation - SQL Blog by Hemantgiri S. Goswami, SQL MVP
SQL Server Security Checklist
In this article I will share the Microsoft SQL Server Security Checklist that I have used for many of my clients to help them achieve PCI compliance. This can...
2023-09-11
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How to Secure SQL Server
Security! This is the word that comes to mind of every concerned person when it comes to storing, accessing, and sharing the data and database or database server. At times when applications are run in geographically restricted areas, there...
2023-09-27 (first published: 2023-09-04)
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The Cloud or On-Premise – Is it a go or no go?
I have seen this question many a time that people have asked “The Cloud or On-Premise – is it a go or no go?”. This is something that has...
2022-03-17
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Cluster Service Failed To Bring Clustered Role Online Or Offline
This weekend I was working, as usual, holding the on-call and listening to my favorite singer Kishor Kumar. And, my friend Rakesh call me in jeopardy. One of his...
2022-02-18
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Call for Speaker Surat Tech Talks 2022
Last year, September 2020 we had organized 1st yearly event and we named it Surat Tech Talk. That event was a great success. This year, we are organizing this...
2021-12-14
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Data Platform MVP
I have a good news to share with you all. This year, 1st of August 2021 I have received an email that surprised me. The email reads that I...
2021-12-03
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SQL Server Agent failed to update history
Recently I have faced a very interesting issue. A good friend of mine and my batchmate Rakesh called me this morning. He told me that one of his customers...
2021-07-27
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How to fix replication issue cannot truncate table
I have the privilege to work on Saturday and Sunday, holding a pager during my shift hours. I get most of the blog ideas during this stint. Today’s post...
2020-11-21
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Recovery Unit InitPersistentVersionStore Failed
As usual, I was working on my weekend on-call and I have had an alert. Our monitoring system has reported a message printed from the error log. I was...
2020-07-14
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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...
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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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