Azure SQL Database – Automatic Tuning – Have you enabled it?
Do you enable this setting to allow automatic tuning to care of all your performance needs? Well not ALL your needs, more so: CREATE INDEX DROP INDEX FORCE LAST...
2019-12-09
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SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Large Printed Schedules
One of the things we’ve done most years in Orlando is to print poster sized schedules. This started out as a supplement to giving everyone a printed schedule and...
2019-12-09
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Upgrading Windows 10 Home to Pro
I use Hyper-V and a few other things that require Windows 10 Pro. When I got my new laptop, it had Windows 10 home on it. Not a big...
2019-12-09
102 reads
Power Platform Quick Tips – Episode 03: Documenting Power Automate Flow Logic
Welcome back to my series on Power Platform quick tips! In this episode you will learn how to document your flow logic with comments.
2019-12-17 (first published: 2019-12-06)
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State of Database DevOps Survey
Maybe you’re using DevOps within your database development and deployment. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re automating all the things or maybe you’ve got a completely manual set of processes....
2019-12-06
55 reads
2019 PASS Summit Recap from a First Timer
Heading to PASS Summit… It is Sunday the week of PASS Summit and I am at the airport after a relaxing morning with my wife and son. Unfortunately, I...
2019-12-06
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Call to Action – Mentoring
A few weeks ago I attended the annual PASS Summit conference in beautiful Seattle, Washington. This is an event that I look forward to every year. Being able to...
2019-12-06
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HP is the 2019 Laptop Winner
This is for me, not necessarily for you, but I decided to go with the HP Spectre again. I saw an email from Best Buy over the Thanksgiving weekend,...
2019-12-06
55 reads
Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4
This is the fourth and final post in a series about modern Data Lake
Architecture where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using
Delta Lake,...
2019-12-06
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4
This is the fourth and final post in a series about modern Data Lake
Architecture where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using
Delta Lake,...
2019-12-06
93 reads
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The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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By Steve Jones
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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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