A Non-Technical Reason to Not Use SELECT *
I got a merge a while back that included a change I wasn’t expecting from one of my developers. All they were doing was renaming a column on a...
2021-01-19
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T-SQL Tuesday #133 - Taking a Break
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community blogger each month, and this month James McGillivray (blog | twitter) asks us about our views on...
2021-01-13
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Slides & Demos for Backup Basics with PowerShell & dbatools
I had the honor of presenting a new session, Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools, at the first Ohio North Database Training meeting this evening. Thank you to the...
2021-01-06
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Slides & Demos for Backup Basics with PowerShell & dbatools
I had the honor of presenting a new session, Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools, at the first Ohio North Database Training meeting this evening. Thank you to the...
2021-01-06
17 reads
2020 Year in Review
Yeah, so…that was a hell of a year, wasn’t it?
Short-Form Reviews of Year 2020 Reviewer #1: 👎
Reviewer #2: ★✩✩✩✩, would not recommend
Best Laid Plans… The year started out really...
2021-01-04
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New-DbatoolsQuestion | Invoke-DbatoolsDiscussion -Platform Github
Chrissy LeMaire (blog | twitter) pinged me earlier this week to tell me about Github Discussions. It’s a new feature of Github which is similar to Stack Exchange, but...
2020-12-02
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Reflections on PASS Virtual Summit 2020
PASS Summit 2020 has wrapped up (or is in the process of wrapping up), and as with years past, I’m getting this written while the experience is still fresh...
2020-11-17
15 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #132 - Coping With the Pandemic
This week is a double-whammy of activity - T-SQL Tuesday and PASS Summit 2020. T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community blogger each month,...
2020-11-11
17 reads
Restoring Database Users After Copying the Database
A former colleague emailed me with a question about retaining/fixing database users and permissions after restoring a database. They were copying a database from one instance to another, with...
2020-11-04
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Restoring Database Users After Copying the Database
A former colleague emailed me with a question about retaining/fixing database users and permissions after restoring a database. They were copying a database from one instance to another, with...
2020-11-04
25 reads
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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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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