ASF 028: Uwe Ricken interview
Introduction Uwe Ricken is working with IT systems since the 90’s. He found the way to the technology of Microsoft SQL Server with the assignment for the development of...
2020-01-31
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Your SQL Server's Screaming But Is Anyone Listening? – High Severity Alert Notifications
As usual, the scripts in this post can be found HERE on our Git Hub repo If your SQL Server comes across something that it’s not happy about, it...
2020-01-30
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Parameterizing a REST API Linked Service in Data Factory
We can now pass dynamic values to linked services at run time in Data Factory. This enables us to do things like connecting to different databases on the same...
2020-02-05 (first published: 2020-01-30)
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AWS RDS SQL Server Announcements - 2019
AWS RDS SQL Server Announcements - 2019
1. Amazon RDS SQL Server Supports differential and log and restores: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-now-supports-differential-restores-and-log-restores/
2. Amazon RDS SQL Server now supports logs to cloudwatch: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/now-publish-log-files-amazon-rds-sql-server-amazon-cloudwatch/
3. Amazon RDS SQL...
2020-01-29
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AWS RDS SQL Server Announcements - 2019
1. Amazon RDS SQL Server Supports differential and log and restores: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-now-supports-differential-restores-and-log-restores/
2. Amazon RDS SQL Server now supports logs to cloudwatch: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/now-publish-log-files-amazon-rds-sql-server-amazon-cloudwatch/
3. Amazon RDS SQL Server now supports high availability in...
2020-01-29
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Chaos Engineering and SQL Server
Recently I’ve been delving into Chaos Engineering, reading books, watching videos, listening to podcasts etc. and I find it really intriguing….I mean, it just sounds exciting, right? CHAOS Engineering!...
2021-05-03 (first published: 2020-01-29)
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AWS RDS SQL Server Version List
AWS RDS SQL Server 2017 Builds
RDS SQL Server version SQL Server Build KB / Description
SQL Server...
2020-01-29
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AWS RDS SQL Server Version List
AWS RDS SQL Server 2017 Builds
RDS SQL Server version SQL Server Build KB / Description
SQL Server...
2020-01-29
2,288 reads
What is a strong password anyway?
Background Fellow Microsoft MVP Troy Hunt (blog | Twitter) has been operating the website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) for a number of years now. For the record, “pwned” is...
2020-01-29
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Sorting in Stored Procedures – Food for Thought
We know that sorting can be one of the most expensive things in an execution plan as shown below. However, we continue to do ORDER BYs repeatedly. Yes, I...
2020-01-29
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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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