Dates and Times in SQL Server: What about TIMESTAMP?
It occurred to me that we haven’t covered the TIMESTAMP data type in this series about dates and times. TIMESTAMP...
2018-05-02
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Blog Posts
Day 2: Introduction to MySQL
Story of MySQL is very interesting and involved emotions in it. This is my understanding and my though on Journey...
2018-05-02
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Getting my Twitter Data via Azure Logic Apps
As a mini project I wanted to use Azure logic apps to pull tweets from my twitter account when people...
2018-05-02
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SQL Homework – May 2018 – Create a database
I’ve really got to make a plan here at some point. So far I’ve been just putting down things as...
2018-05-02
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SQL Server Dedicated Admin Connection and Why You NEED It!
DAC or Dedicated Admin Connection is one of those things you don’t know you need until it’s too late.
What is...
2018-05-02
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Thoughts and Lessons Learned From A Power BI Embedded POC
I worked on a Power BI embedded POC where a report with an in-memory Power BI model as the dataset...
2018-05-02 (first published: 2018-04-25)
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Using CAST() function with User-Defined Data Types...Did you know...
I’m converting some Firebird database code to T-SQL and I’m seeing a lot of code that doesn’t work in the same way that SQL Server. No surprise - I...
2018-05-02
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Database Superhero Adventures, May 2018 Edition
Well, three SQL Saturdays down for April. Raleigh which was local for me and I helped organize, Philadelphia where I...
2018-05-01
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Database Superhero Adventures, May 2018 Edition
Well, three SQL Saturdays down for April. Raleigh which was local for me and I helped organize, Philadelphia where I...
2018-05-01
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Database testing and ETL processes
Unit testing using tSQLt is really great, you call FakeTable on any tables your code touches and then insert the columns and rows your test actually need, nothing more,...
2018-05-01
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Blogs
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
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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