My Desktop Setup
Every once in awhile when I’m recording a Pluralsight course, I’ll take a photo of my desk to let people see the behind the scenes of the process. Well,...
2020-01-17 (first published: 2020-01-08)
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Running Powershell Scripts – #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. When you install Windows, by default, the execution...
2020-01-08
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Remote sessions at Data Céilí
At Data Céilí 2020 we want to be as green as possible and one idea we’ve had is to run a Green Track that will host remote sessions from...
2020-01-08
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The curious case of the sqlcmd password
In August last year I posted about a command line parser problem I ran into with AzCopy, which I eventually resolved by writing a batch file and escaping a...
2020-01-08
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Help! My restore has finished but the database still has a status of recovering.
I’ve been thinking about writing this for a bit and then a co-worker actually had this problem recently, so, well, ... Continue reading
2020-01-17 (first published: 2020-01-08)
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Common Things Admins Miss in Azure SQL DB
This is by no means a complete list but more of a personal list of features I have seen not setup or just missed out when looking at Azure...
2020-01-08
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Memory Optimized Tables in SQL Server
Sometimes when I try to learn about a concept my brain blocks out everything about it. Talking about anything that uses the “In Memory” concept tends to do this...
2020-01-16 (first published: 2020-01-08)
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DevOps for databases: “DataOps”
DevOps, a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and information-technology operations (Ops), has become a very popular way to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery of...
2020-01-16 (first published: 2020-01-07)
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Re-Inventing Humanity
Are we Human or Robots ? AI & ML shall definitely change the world some day in future. One thing is also sure, very soon we’ll also become machines...
2020-01-07
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Using Python And NetworkX To Build A Twitter Follower Recommendation Engine
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This week, I want to share my process for analyzing Twitter. Specifically, I want to find who all of my friends follow on Twitter...
2020-01-07
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Blogs
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...
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 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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