Charting in Azure Data Studio
The March 2020 release of Azure Data Studio (ADS) includes a charting feature for SQL queries. This is a quick look at the feature, which I think will have...
2020-04-10 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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Running Jupyter Notebooks as Agent Jobs
Azure Data Studio is a great tool for connecting with your data platform whether it is in Azure or on your hardware. Jupyter Notebooks are fantastic, you can have...
2020-04-09 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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T-SQL Tuesday Live–31 Mar 2020
I’m hosting another live T-SQL Tuesday event tomorrow, which is really just a casual video meeting for anyone that wants to join and take a break from work, life,...
2020-03-30
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Administration Basics: Point in time recovery
Nowadays, data is a precious asset for companies today. If you are a database administrator (by decision or by mistake) or simply you are the "IT guy," you have...
2020-03-30
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Administration Basics: Point in time recovery
Nowadays, data is a precious asset for companies today. If you are a database administrator (by decision or by mistake) or simply you are the "IT guy," you have...
2020-04-08 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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Living with Bipolar During a Pandemic
Introduction Today is World Bipolar Day. I wanted to write a blog about my experience with bipolar to help others that have mental health challenges know that aren’t alone...
2020-03-30
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Living with Bipolar During a Pandemic
Introduction Today is World Bipolar Day. I wanted to write a blog about my experience with bipolar to help others that have mental health challenges know that aren’t alone...
2020-04-03 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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Extended Events: Queries and Waits
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to put together queries and waits at the same time? You all capture query metrics using some method. Most of us query...
2020-03-30
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Daily Coping 30 Mar 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-03-30
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Error handling protip: @@Error resets after the next command
The system variable @@ERROR is a quick and easy way to retrieve the error number from the last statement run ... Continue reading
2020-04-06 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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Blogs
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...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
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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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