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What Admins Absolutely Must Know About SQL Server Security
There are so many security tips out...
2015-02-26
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My Upcoming Speaking Engagements
March 4 – Charleston PASS, Charleston, SC
What Admins Absolutely Must Know About SQL Server Security
There are so many security tips out...
2015-02-26
968 reads
Operational Data Store (ODS) Defined
I see a lot of confusion on what exactly is an Operational Data Store (ODS). While it can mean different...
2015-03-12 (first published: 2015-02-26)
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Monitor Query Statistics
One of the most common tasks that DBAs are required to perform is monitoring. This is not just a task....
2015-03-10 (first published: 2015-02-26)
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Exam Prep 70-463: SSIS Expressions
This post is part of a series on this blog that will help me, and hopefully you, pass exam 70-463: Implementing...
2015-03-17 (first published: 2015-02-26)
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How to do DevOps as a SQL Server DBA
You recognize that you need to provide a pipeline for database deployments, that you need to automate as much support...
2015-02-26
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Dynamic Data Masking
Dynamic Data Masking
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
Have you ever wanted to only show parts of a field to certain sets of users such as credit card numbers, telephone numbers or last...
2015-02-26
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Dynamic Data Masking
Dynamic Data MaskingFEBRUARY 26, 2015
Have you ever wanted to only show parts of a field to certain sets of users...
2015-03-11 (first published: 2015-02-26)
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Parsing SQL Saturday Data – Getting Titles from the XML document
I’m continuing on with my project to grab SQL Saturday data and automatically insert it into a SQL Server database....
2015-02-25
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Using sp_DBPermissions and sp_SrvPermissions v6.0
It’s been a while since I posted an updated to usp_DBPermissions and usp_SrvPermissions. Sorry. I got lazy with my posting....
2015-02-25
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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
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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
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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