A Clean Values Clause with SQL Prompt
I’ve had this code in a snippet for a long time: I appreciate the markup to prevent SQL Prompt from doing this, which used to always happen. I can’t...
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2019-05-13
Tools for development
SQL SERVER – How Do I Evaluate Monitoring Tools?
Today, I am going to talk about the 3 important properties which I look for in all the SQL Server Performance monitoring tools.
First appeared on SQL SERVER – How...
2019-05-08
Embed Azure Data Studio Notebooks in your website
Notebooks are a functionality available in Azure Data Studio, that allows you to create and share documents that may contain text, code, images, and query results. These documents are...
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2019-05-07
Launching ADS from SSMS
If you haven’t heard, SSMS v18 went GA (Generally Availability) recently. You can download it from Microsoft, though if you have a preview version, you do need to uninstall...
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2019-05-06
SSMS v18 and Azure Data Studio: The Golden Age of SQL Server Tooling
Yesterday, SQL Server Management Studio 18.0 shipped. Here’s the official announcement, the download page, and the release notes. Yes, it’s still free, and yes, they’re still adding features. Yes,...
2019-04-25
AutoRecover in SSMS
Periodically there is a crash, power surge, or sudden reboot of your computer. Of course, you had SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) open and you were working on something important. That seems to be the only time there is a crash/reboot. You can lose work that that was open in SSMS but has not saved.
2019-04-12
Azure Data Studio Notebooks: GitHub Issues
There are a couple of Azure Data Studio GitHub issues near and dear to my heart that I’d like to point out in the hopes that it’ll raise their...
2019-04-10
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The Ultimate Tool List
This week Steve Jones looks at a few tools that can help your productivity and links to a few more.
2013-12-30
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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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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