SQL Saturday #179 - Kharkov, Ukraine
SQL Saturday in the Ukraine. If you want a free day of training, sign up and attend.
2012-11-19
1,559 reads
Press Release
SQL Saturday #168 - Tampa BI Edition
A free day of SQL Server Business Intelligence sessions in Tampa, FL tomorrow.
2012-11-16
1,605 reads
Free eBook: SQL Server Hardware
A free eBook from SQLServerCentral and Red Gate software can help you learn about the best hardware for your SQL Server instances.
2012-11-06
5,763 reads
Last chance for a day of free SQL Server training at SQL in the City 2012
SQL Server developers and database administrators have one last chance for a full day of free training and networking at SQL in the City 2012.
2012-11-02 (first published: 2012-10-25)
3,912 reads
SQL in the City - Seattle 2012
Start the week in Seattle off with a free day of training on Nov 5, 2012 with SQL in the City. Grant Fritchey, Steve Jones and more will be talking SQL Server in the Pacific Northwest. Join us and debate and discuss SQL Server the Red Gate Way.
2012-10-16 (first published: 2012-09-13)
5,790 reads
SQLServerCentral Webinar Series #21 - Forgotten Rings & Other Monitoring Stories
Most common monitoring metrics are important and useful, especially over time, but they can fall short. How do you gather information to determine, for example, if you have buffer cache pressure? Register now for the free webinar.
Wednesday, October 17 2012 4:00pm - 5:00pm BST
2012-10-15 (first published: 2012-09-20)
5,512 reads
SQLSaturday #153 - Salt Lake City 2012
A free one day training event in Salt Lake City, Utah on Oct 20, 2012.
2012-10-11
2,057 reads
Temporary Tables in Oracle and SQL Server
Jonathan Lewis (Oracle Ace Director, OakTable Network) and Grant Fritchey (Microsoft SQL Server MVP) will host a live discussion on Oracle and SQL Server, this time in relation to temporary tables.
2012-10-08 (first published: 2012-09-27)
5,894 reads
An Interview with Amazon Web Services
A short interview with Sundar Raghavan of Amazon Web Services about SQL Server and their support and offerings of cloud data services.
2012-09-27
1,596 reads
SQL Database Management Survey
Win one of two $50 Amazon vouchers by entering our database management survey. We’re finding out more about how SQL database professionals are doing backup and recovery, using cloud services and more. Answer the short survey for a chance to win.
2012-09-27 (first published: 2012-09-24)
2,706 reads
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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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