Looking back on 2014
When a new year comes around it is always a great time to reflect on the previous year.
2014 was a...
2015-01-06
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T-SQL Tuesday #62 - Invitation to HealthySQL
Greetings ALL and Happy New Year 2015! I wish everyone an excellent year ahead, and
that 2015 will bring peace and...
2015-01-06
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Table Variables, CTE and Temp Tables. Which one should I use?
There are several really good blogs that already exists that explain the differences between Table Variable, Common Table Expressions (CTE)...
2015-01-05
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Table Variables, CTE and Temp Tables. Which one should I use?
There are several really good blogs that already exists that explain the differences between Table Variable, Common Table Expressions (CTE)...
2015-01-05
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Las Vegas UG This week
What a fun week we have tuned up for the folks in Las Vegas. It is the first full week of January and there is this huge convention going...
2015-01-05
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Las Vegas UG This week
What a fun week we have tuned up for the folks in Las Vegas. It is the first full week...
2015-01-05
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"OR" pattern causing indexing scans in parameter based queries
#Tl;dr article (time constraints prevented me from reworking significantly)
An article on SQL-Server-pro was forwarded over to me to research by...
2015-01-08 (first published: 2015-01-05)
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Case of the Mondays... causing me to randomly redefine the Scope of Global temp tables
Today, I was reminded that global temp tables scope lasts for the session, and doesn't last beyond that. The difference...
2015-01-05
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Beware of Login Issues for Privileged Accounts
In a recent post, I described an attack against a privileged account using a simple SQL Injection technique of updating...
2015-01-05
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Effects of Max Mem on Plan Cache
Some effects on plan cache and max memory settings
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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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...
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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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