SQL Saturday Albany Slides & Demo Code
Thanks to everyone who came out to see dbatools for the Uninitiated at SQL Saturday Albany on July 20th, 2019. I had a lot of fun sharing dbatools with...
2019-07-20
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Quick 6 month check – how are those learning goals going…?
So in January I wrote a blog post on some goals I had this year: Some of my goals for 2019 It’s now July – how are things going?...
2019-07-19
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“An installation package for the product Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client cannot be found” – during SQL Server 2017 install
This blog post is about a situation that initially perplexed me – I was installing SQL Server 2017 onto a new DEMO machine – running Windows Server 2019. This...
2019-07-19
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How to Persuade Your Company to Change
Like a lot of developers and database administrators, I do a fair amount of short-term problem solving during the course of my normal work week. I get to join...
2019-07-19
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Power BI Monthly Digest – July 2019
In this month’s Power BI Digest with Manuel Quintana [Blog | Twitter] and I will again guide you through some of our favorite Power BI
2019-07-19
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One Way to Find Broken Code on Your Server
Before we approached our last major SQL Server upgrade, I was curious about what might break. Yes, I had used the DEA to check our code against deprecated or...
2019-07-19
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Azure SQL Database SLA Updates
I am sure many missed the updates to Azure SQL Database SLA (Service Level Agreement). It used to be 99.99% across all tiers but split between two different high-availability...
2019-07-19
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ASF 024 video invitation
I’m happy to announce that the next episode of “Ask SQL Family” podcast is coming. This time our guest is an amazing woman, not only in AI and Power...
2019-07-19
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Connecting Azure Databricks to Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 Part 2
This post is part two in a three-part series that addresses how to use
Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 as external storage with Azure
Databricks. It builds on...
2019-07-19
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Connecting Azure Databricks to Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 Part 2
This post is part two in a three-part series that addresses how to use
Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 as external storage with Azure
Databricks. It builds on...
2019-07-19
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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...
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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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