T-SQL Tuesday #116–Always Linux
This month is an interesting invitation from Tracy Boggiano. It’s on Linux, which I like. I hadn’t thought about this in terms of T-SQL Tuesday, but I think it...
2019-07-29 (first published: 2019-07-09)
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Create New Azure VM with PowerShell
Every so often I set out to create new resources in my Azure subscription using the command line tools (PowerShell or CLI) just to keep up to date on...
2019-07-25 (first published: 2019-07-09)
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SELECT Expression Execution Order
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube! Today I want to share with you an interesting observation I made about SELECT expression execution order. I was working on writing a...
2019-07-23 (first published: 2019-07-09)
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SELECT Expression Execution Order
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Today I want to share with you an interesting observation I made about SELECT expression execution order.
I was working on writing a dynamic SQL...
2019-07-09
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SELECT Expression Execution Order
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Today I want to share with you an interesting observation I made about SELECT expression execution order.
I was working on writing a dynamic SQL...
2019-07-09
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Low Tech Repeating Tasks in Trello
I mentioned in earlier posts that I’m using Trello this year for managing SQLSaturday tasks and figured I might as well go all in and add some of the...
2019-07-26 (first published: 2019-07-09)
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OUT OF SUPPORT: SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2
Welcome to this post, on SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, both of these versions of SQL server will go out of extended support with Microsoft today! 9th July...
2019-07-24 (first published: 2019-07-09)
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Learning More about Kubernetes (K8s)
I know a bit about this, but I’m always looking for more. I had the chance to see Brendon Burns recently and I was impressed. That is one seriously...
2019-07-25 (first published: 2019-07-08)
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sp_execute_external_script and SQL Injection
In order to take advantage of R and Python (and Java in SQL Server 2019) directly from your SQL Server scripts, you’ll be using the function sp_execute_external_script. When you...
2019-07-23 (first published: 2019-07-08)
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Error: ‘misaligned log IOs which required falling back to synchronous IO’ And Slow AG Synchronisation
I recently hit this rather interesting issue when migrating a bunch of SQL Servers onto a nice, shiny new SAN. The plan was simple enough, take the secondary servers...
2019-07-22 (first published: 2019-07-08)
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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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