Want a Sean-made Precon? You got it!
Sean’s giving a precon at SQL Satrurday 163 this October! Oh yeah, and so are Tim Mitchell and David Stein....
2012-07-02
767 reads
Jen McCown
Want to lose #20PoundsBeforeTheSummit? Join the #GetHawt competition!
We here in the IT community are clearly concerned about our weight. More specifically, we’re concerned about our weight going...
2012-06-26
971 reads
Live note-taking: Sean’s NCC-1701-DBA part 2
Note that THIS talk, and a ton more, is the subject of Sean’s precon at SQL Saturday #163 Dallas this...
2012-06-21
940 reads
SQL Server 2012 CU2 – Have a little fun (#AppliedSQL)
SQL Server 2012 Cumulative Update (CU) 2 is out! If you’re like Me-from-10-years-ago, you couldn’t care less!
But there are actually...
2012-06-20
1,295 reads
The First Interview: What companies do that make me want to run far, far away
I’ve recently been asked for some clarification about this statement (from my last blog post): “This is EXACTLY the kind...
2012-06-19
777 reads
#SQLRally Women in Technology Panel of WIN AND AWESOMENESS
Best. Luncheon. EVAR.
I just finished up moderating this year’s Women in Technology panel here at SQLRally, and it was fantastic. ...
2012-05-10
707 reads
Picking Technical Conference Sessions (#SQLRally Edition)
Conferences are awesome. They are full of people and sessions. Almost…TOO many sessions. How on Earth do you get in...
2012-05-08
1,176 reads
Content is King: Great (paraphrased) advice from TheOatmeal.com
TheOatmeal.com has provided the absolute best counsel regarding creativity vs marketing. The comic I’m talking about is entitled “How to get...
2012-05-03
845 reads
Speaker Issues: The Quandry of Double Submitting
This is in response to yesterday’s Twitter conversation, and subsequent blog by Eddie Wuerch, about submitting to more than one...
2012-05-01
793 reads
There is awesomeness to be had at #SQLRally
Two days of precons.
60 regular sessions over two days.
The now-famous Women in Technology luncheon.
Open access to Microsoft Customer Service and...
2012-04-30
1,510 reads
Blogs
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...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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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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