Speakers wanted for the Richmond (VA) SQL Server Users Group – 2020
Are you a speaker in SQL Server topics? Come on out to Richmond, VA to speak to our user group. There are several topics that we are interested in...
2019-12-10
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Speakers wanted for the Richmond (VA) SQL Server Users Group – 2020
Are you a speaker in SQL Server topics? Come on out to Richmond, VA to speak to our user group. There are several topics that we are interested in...
2019-12-10
51 reads
The Gift of the SPN
Every once in a while there is an extremely valuable tool that comes along. While the footprint and use frequency of this tool may not be that big, the...
2019-12-10
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The Gift of the SPN
Every once in a while there is an extremely valuable tool that comes along. While the footprint and use frequency of this tool may not be that big, the...
2019-12-20 (first published: 2019-12-10)
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again! This edition is hosted by Malathi (blog|twitter) and the subject is looking back at the past year. So what do I have to be...
2019-12-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again! This edition is hosted by Malathi (blog|twitter) and the subject is looking back at the past year. So what do I have to be...
2019-12-24 (first published: 2019-12-10)
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A gift. T-SQL Tuesday #121
My good friend Malathi Mahadevan (blog|twitter) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and wants us to talk about Gifts received ... Continue reading
2019-12-23 (first published: 2019-12-10)
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Online, Resumable, and WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY operations in SQL Server
ONLINE operations in SQL Server were simple to understand for years — we got ONLINE index rebuilds in SQL Server 2005. That was it for a while. Then, things...
2019-12-10
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What would you say you do here?
The other day, I was looking back at an excellent blog post my colleague Jamie Wallis wrote about what Product Marketing Managers do at Redgate. I really like the...
2019-12-09
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Distributing Jupyter Notebooks
If you’re working with the Microsoft Data Platform, you should be, at the least, exploring Azure Data Studio as a new tool in your toolbox. One of the big...
2019-12-18 (first published: 2019-12-09)
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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...
Forums
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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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