Generalists vs. Specialists
I’ve stated quite often that being a generalist has generally been beneficial for my IT career (pun intended). That’s why...
2014-11-13 (first published: 2014-11-06)
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I’ve stated quite often that being a generalist has generally been beneficial for my IT career (pun intended). That’s why...
2014-11-13 (first published: 2014-11-06)
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Imagine this scenario: One of your servers just crashed, and you open a ticket with Microsoft for them to perform...
2014-11-06
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Today I presented my SQL Server virtual machine “right-sizing” session at the SQL PASS 2014 Summit to a fantastic audience....
2014-11-06
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I recently came cross another great reason to enable the remote admin connections server configuration on SQL server.
If you don’t...
2014-11-06
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Let’s say you build or rebuild an index in SQL Server. Your users and boss are anxious to know when...
2014-11-11 (first published: 2014-11-06)
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Summit 2014 is upon us. Unless you are still under a rock, you probably know that. And if you are under that rock, I am curious how you are...
2014-11-06
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Summit 2014 is upon us. Unless you are still under a rock, you probably know that. And if you are...
2014-11-06
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PASS President Thomas LaRock on stage !
PASS President Thomas LaRock kicked off the summit keynote.
Tom talked about the history of...
2014-11-05
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I have a lab on my laptop running various servers so that I can problem solve and learn and recently...
2014-11-05
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Hello Dear Reader! It's that time of the year again, time for the PASS Summit and the streaming Keynote. Here...
2014-11-05
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Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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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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