Maintenance Plan mystery
Last week I had interesting (or I can say weird ? ) case of Maintenance Plan. One of the server that we...
2011-12-14
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SQL Server Citation - SQL Blog by Hemantgiri S. Goswami, SQL MVP
Using NOLOCK hint
Use NOLOCK hint to avoid block - this is what I have often heard/see in many forums I participate, during local...
2011-12-01
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Download SQL Server 2008 SP3 CU2
MS has recently released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 2 Released? which has fixes reported after SQL...
2011-11-22
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Download SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2010 Developer Training Kit which includes :
LabsDemosand, Presentations
This kit will greatly help you learning Developer...
2011-11-07
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Resolving 701 There is insufficient system memory to run this query
In recent past while working on an assignment I have encounter an error 701 There is insufficient system memory to run...
2011-11-07
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DATABASE_OBJECT_CHANGE_GROUP do not audit SP or other object
Deepak Kumar (friend of mine and founder of http://www.sqlknowledge.com ) were chatting yesterday. We were discussing about audit feature in SQL...
2011-10-29
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Refresh QA Database with Manual Scripts
Couple of week back Megha Sharma send me an email with a document attached, this document is all about how...
2011-10-27
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workaround for orphaned users
The server principal is not able to access the database under the current security context, is the error message appears...
2011-09-27
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SQL 2008 R2 Administration Cook Book
Couple of week back I have received a special gift, from the person whom I admire as a elder bro...
2011-09-26
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CU 16 for SQL Server 2008 SP1
Microsoft has recently released a Cumulative Update (CU) # 16 for SQL Server 2008 SP1 which contains hotfixes which were resolved...
2011-09-23
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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The Hidden Security Risks of Role Combination in SSAS Tabular
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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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