DBA 101: Altering a column
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2017-02-06 (first published: 2017-02-02)
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2016-12-27 (first published: 2016-12-08)
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2016-12-15 (first published: 2016-11-30)
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2016-11-23 (first published: 2016-11-18)
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2016-11-14 (first published: 2016-11-10)
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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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