Indexed views on any core SQL server edition-The video
A few months back I created a blog post showing that you can indeed create and use indexed views on any core SQL server edition. It has proved to...
2015-10-10
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SQL Server Rocks!
SQL Server Contracting - The first 14 months (or so)
Crikey, where did that time go! I have been so busy adjusting to my new work life style I have...
2015-10-09
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SQL Server Contracting – The first 14 months (or so)
Crikey, where did that time go! I have been so busy adjusting to my new work life style I have completely neglected my blog.. Well now that I seem...
2015-10-09
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SQL Server Contracting – The first 14 months (or so)
Crikey, where did that time go! I have been so busy adjusting to my new work life style I have...
2015-10-16 (first published: 2015-10-07)
1,814 reads
XQuery – Accessing the Attributes Axis
Working with a sequence of attributes in XQuery is fairly straight forward with the “attribute” axis even if you don’t...
2014-12-26 (first published: 2014-12-19)
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XQuery - Accessing the Attributes Axis
Working with a sequence of attributes in XQuery is fairly straight forward with the 'attribute' axis even if you don't...
2014-12-19
884 reads
Updated blog Site
This post is mainly to test the syndication still works correctly from my heavily updated web/blog site so apologies for...
2014-11-12
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Updated blog Site
This post is mainly to test the syndication still works correctly from my heavily updated web/blog site so apologies for...
2014-11-12
156 reads
Creating cards in Trello via the REST API and parsing the returned JSON all in a SQL CLR
I recently blogged about how good I thought Trello was and shortly afterwards I found out that they did provide...
2014-11-12
313 reads
Drop and Recreate all Synonyms
Had a quick job the other day restoring a pair of databases under different names which is all straight forward...
2014-11-06 (first published: 2014-10-27)
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Blogs
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...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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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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