SQLSaturday Automatic Messages
For those who haven’t used the admin tools for SQLSaturday when an event is created there are a set of messages loaded automatically. It’s up the event admin if...
2019-07-12 (first published: 2019-06-15)
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Using the Announcement/News Part of SQLSaturday
One of the interesting but not often used features of the SQLSaturday tools is the announcement/news (in the admin tools, its Message Center | Announce News) to do mini-blog...
2019-07-05 (first published: 2019-06-15)
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SQLSaturday Orlando 2019 Begins
We’ll be event number 911, set for September 28th at our usual location at Seminole State College. Maybe something interesting to do there as far as a theme. Call...
2019-06-14
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Notes from Jacksonville, Atlanta, and South Florida
Misc notes: Jax. Ice cream break in the afternoon is nice, but the waffle cones on site make all the difference, the smell is hard to miss! Jax. Rooms...
2019-06-14
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Query machine name of the sql server instance - the hard or the harder way
I was at a client where they are using non-Microsoft clustering technology to achieve the high availability of SQL Server instances....
2019-06-26 (first published: 2019-06-13)
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How Developers and DBAs Collaborate in a DevOps World (video)
You’re a DBA, and your development team is all-in on doing DevOps, and they want to include the database. Should your DBA team limit the permissions or options for...
2019-06-13
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Does the case statement short circuit?
Let’s start with definitions: CASE Statement: This is basically an inline IF .. ELSE IF .. ELSE IF ….. etc ... Continue reading
2019-06-13
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Get the Source of PREEMPTIVE_OS_PIPEOPS Waits
Extended Events is a powerful tool with plenty of ease of use and flexibility. This flexibility allows the DBA to capably monitor the server for any issue be it...
2019-06-13
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Get the Source of PREEMPTIVE_OS_PIPEOPS Waits
Extended Events is a powerful tool with plenty of ease of use and flexibility. This flexibility allows the DBA to capably monitor the server for any issue be it...
2019-06-13
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Get the Source of PREEMPTIVE_OS_PIPEOPS Waits
Extended Events is a powerful tool with plenty of ease of use and flexibility. This flexibility allows the DBA to capably monitor the server for any issue be it...
2019-06-13
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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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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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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