Monday Morning SQL Break – June 13, 2016
Usually on my Monday posts, I include a pretty bland cookie cutter header. Nothing to extravagant, just an introduction. It’s...
2016-06-13
774 reads
StrateSQL
How To Get A Free SQL Server Indexing Book – Week 2
Free Book!
Another free indexing books, more awesome!
In last week’s post, I talked about how I’ve got a number of copies...
2016-06-10
943 reads
How To Get A Free SQL Server Indexing Book – Week 2
Free Book! Another free indexing books, more awesome! In last week’s post, I talked about how I’ve got a number of copies of Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server;...
2016-06-10
10 reads
Book Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Harari, made it on my reading list after hearing about Mark Zuckerberg’s...
2016-06-08
839 reads
Book Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Harari, made it on my reading list after hearing about Mark Zuckerberg’s list of books everyone should read. And since then,...
2016-06-08
17 reads
Monday Morning SQL Break – June 6, 2016
It’s Monday time for this week’s Monday Morning SQL Break. A chance to catch up on links I’ve shared and...
2016-06-06
423 reads
How To Get A Free SQL Server Indexing Book – Week 1
Free indexing books, awesome!
Before I tell you how, lets start with what we are talking about here. If you weren’t...
2016-06-03
488 reads
How To Get A Free SQL Server Indexing Book – Week 1
Free indexing books, awesome! Before I tell you how, lets start with what we are talking about here. If you weren’t aware, last summer I worked with Grant Fritchey...
2016-06-03
19 reads
Why Do I Write? And Should I Continue?
It’s been about six months now since my career to a sharp right turn. At the request of my kids,...
2016-06-02
377 reads
Why Do I Write? And Should I Continue?
It’s been about six months now since my career to a sharp right turn. At the request of my kids, I left a decade of consulting for a role...
2016-06-02
23 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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