2009-12-07 (first published: 2009-11-12)
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Display COUNT(*) but ONLY TOP 100
Let’s say you have a result set with 5000 records but you want to display only 100 of them and in the same time to display the count of ALL records (5000).
2009-11-20 (first published: 2009-11-05)
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Split string into table, separator can be more than 1 char
Split string like ('123,43,5465,6788,1231,111', ',') into table, separator (,) can be more than 1 char
2009-11-19 (first published: 2009-11-05)
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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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