Why We’re Organizing SQL Saturday in Wheeling, WV on April 28th
Some of my friends know I am a huge fan of the song “Havana” by Camila Cabello. They also know I like to remix songs and if I was...
2018-03-29
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Blog Posts
Why We’re Organizing SQL Saturday in Wheeling, WV on April 28th
Some of my friends know I am a huge fan of the song “Havana” by Camila Cabello. They also know...
2018-03-29
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Working with tabs and spaces in SSMS (Day 34)
There are several different options available for working with tabs and spaces in SSMS. In fact, there are enough that...
2018-03-29 (first published: 2018-03-21)
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Dates and Times in SQL Server: DATETIMEOFFSET
This post continues our look at date and time data types in SQL Server. SQL Server 2008 introduced new data...
2018-03-28
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Moving to AWS EC2
SQLServerCentral has been stuck in the past for some time, but we’ve finally decided to move. I’ve been asking for...
2018-03-28
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Query Monitoring and the GDPR
I’ve been reading the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and discussing the ramifications of the beginning of enforcement with lots...
2018-03-28 (first published: 2018-03-19)
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SQL Server DevOps Tools
This article is part of the SQL Server Tools series, aimed at giving you an idea of the available tools and techniques...
2018-03-28
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SQLSaturday Orlando 2018 – Planned for October 6
Just a quick note that we’ve reserved the date for our 12th SQLSaturday here in Orlando. It will be held...
2018-03-28
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Stretch Databases for the Budget Poor DBA
The post Stretch Databases for the Budget Poor DBA appeared first on WaterOx Consulting.
2018-03-28
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TempDB Filling Up On Secondary Replicas
Have you ever had an issue where TempDB was filling up on your secondary replicas? Do those secondaries happen to...
2018-03-28 (first published: 2018-03-21)
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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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