SQL Saturday #57 – Houston
SQL Saturday #57 was this weekend! Sean and I went, talked, webshow-ed, and then presented a total of SIX sessions!
Travel
Sean and...
2011-01-31
1,647 reads
Jen McCown
Un-SQL Friday #002 Roundup (finally)
The invitation for Un-SQL Friday #002 (Tech Giants) was, like, a week ago! I’ve gotta get this train a-rollin, or...
2011-01-28
964 reads
My Surprise MVP Party
Two Fridays ago, Sean and I sat down for our weekly DBAs@Midnight webshow* as usual. Unusually, we were expecting an out-of-town...
2011-01-24
586 reads
RTFM365, Week 7
[Commence whine-a-thon, thinly veiled as an introductory paragraph to a blog.]
As I knew it would, it is getting VERY difficult...
2011-01-24
491 reads
Blog Sins
Thoughts come together, and the hybridization of your thoughts give rise to new ideas. Here are the thoughts:
I have this...
2011-01-21
703 reads
Un-SQL Friday: Your Tech Giants
This started as just a regular blog…but it’s sparked such a big conversation online, I’ve decided to make it an...
2011-01-19
1,090 reads
Who do you want to see at SQLRally and 24HOP?
I dig democracy: I like all this voting for SQL sessions at events.
Voting is open this week, Jan17 – 23, for...
2011-01-19
620 reads
RTFM365, Week 6
Just a quick note this week….things are quite crazy right now, and I’m struggling to keep reading on my days...
2011-01-18
441 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #014 Roundup
Wow…the inagural 2011 T-SQL Tuesday was so big, it lasted a week! A few quick observations, then on to the...
2011-01-18
1,275 reads
T-SQL Tuesday: Resolutions
In my invitation to T-SQL Tuesday #014, I picked the topic “Resolutions”, clearly to play on the new year. The...
2011-01-11
761 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...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
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The Hidden Security Risks of Role Combination in SSAS Tabular
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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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