SQL Server 2014 Upgrade Sessions on the Microsoft Virtual Academy
It was a great honor to be asked to join my associates from SolidQ at the Microsoft Virtual Academy Studios...
2015-04-12
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Data Rendering Eye Opener SSRS
Hi Folks
Greetings to everyone!!!
So last week one of the report was having a performance issue. It had 10 datasets ,5...
2015-04-22 (first published: 2015-04-12)
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In Memory Optimized Table in SQL Server 2014
To increase performance of highly accessible tables, a new feature incorporated in Sql Server 2014 “In-Memory OLTP”.You can define a...
2015-04-21 (first published: 2015-04-11)
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2015-04-10
1,134 reads
On PowerShell
I use PowerShell a lot and I write about using it to solve problems quite frequently. The fact that I...
2015-04-10
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On PowerShell
I use PowerShell a lot and I write about using it to solve problems quite frequently. The fact that I...
2015-04-10
680 reads
I Am Grateful For
I decided in January that I would write regularly about people that I’m grateful for. Now it’s April. Oops.
The concepts...
2015-04-10
538 reads
A full day with me, SSIS, and Edgar Allan Poe
When I think about Baltimore, I think about Edgar Allan Poe. Baltimore was Poe’s one-time home, and in fact there...
2015-04-10
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Big Data Hackathon in Microsoft Canada: Power Map will find your way!
Big Data, what a term! Some people instantly think of a huge sometimes cumbersome volume of information, others define it...
2015-04-10
1,646 reads
Converting identifiers into SQL Server table variables in Management Studio
If I had a nickel for every time someone gave me a list of identifiers and asked me to pull...
2015-04-20 (first published: 2015-04-09)
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Blogs
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
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“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 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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