My fantasy SQL feature(s)? T-SQL Tuesday #118
It’s fantasy football time again? Oh, fantasy feature? Oh, yea, that makes a lot more sense for #tsql2sday. What’s #tsql2sday? ... Continue reading
2019-09-19 (first published: 2019-09-10)
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T-SQL Tuesday #118 – Your Fantasy SQL Feature
It’s early September, which means it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s topic comes from Kevin Chant (blog | twitter). Our mission, should we choose to accept it (click...
2019-09-10
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Tracking Who Last Changed a Row
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #118 prompt by Kevin Chant. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and professional...
2019-09-19 (first published: 2019-09-10)
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Tracking Who Last Changed a Row
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #118 prompt by Kevin Chant. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and professional...
2019-09-10
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Tracking Who Last Changed a Row
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #118 prompt by Kevin Chant. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and professional...
2019-09-10
26 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #118 – Your Fantasy SQL Feature
It’s early September, which means it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s topic comes from Kevin Chant (blog | twitter). Our mission, should we choose to accept it (click...
2019-09-10
19 reads
Finding the Visual Designer in Azure DevOps Builds
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Get the Last Actual Plan With sys.dm_exec_query_plan_stats
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2019-09-18 (first published: 2019-09-09)
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Get Started with the For Loop Container in SSIS
SQL Server Integration Services is equipped with tasks and containers to make it easy to design and maintain the flow of ETL: which logic should be executed, when should...
2019-09-18 (first published: 2019-09-09)
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SQL Tuesday #118 – Your Fantasy SQL Feature
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation comes from Kevin Chant and he’s asking us about a fantasy feature that we’d love to see in SQL Server. I had a little...
2019-09-09
46 reads
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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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