SQL Server Containers Are Boring
Not really, but sort of. The beauty of containers, at least in a dev/test environment, is the ability to spin them up while you need them and then throw...
2019-07-04 (first published: 2019-06-17)
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Bump nuspec file version with powershell
Bump Nuspec Version
Bumping the version of the nuspec file requires a little tweaking and I got some help from the slack powershell community to ensure I handled the xml...
2019-06-17
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Public Role Permissions – Back to Basics
If you are being serious in your role, then the amount of times you grant permissions to the public role should either be a) never, b) when you want...
2019-06-17
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Public Role Permissions – Back to Basics
If you are being serious in your role, then the amount of times you grant permissions to the public role should either be a) never, b) when you want...
2019-07-01 (first published: 2019-06-17)
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Public Role Permissions – Back to Basics
If you are being serious in your role, then the amount of times you grant permissions to the public role should either be a) never, b) when you want...
2019-06-17
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It’s interesting how an OR short circuits.
I recently did a post on the case expression short circuting and received a very very interesting comment from Chad ... Continue reading
2019-06-27 (first published: 2019-06-17)
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Weekly reading #18
Ready for vacations? The CodingFamily team is almost ready – we have some vacations plans including great conferences during summer and in the autumn. T-SQL bugs, pitfalls, and best...
2019-06-17
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Last Week Reading (2019-06-16)
Hello Data girls and guys! A lot of Microsoft’s announcements in many areas of the data platform. Here you have a big portion of news today. Press Unlock the...
2019-06-16
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Back with new focus
Back with a new focus First let me say wow can’t believe that it has been almost 3 years since I have blogged. The last few years my career...
2019-06-16
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A Double Day
I’m traveling back from Australia today. A few weeks ago I lost a day when I flew West across the Pacific. Today I get it back, with a different...
2019-06-16
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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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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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