Black Panther is Going to Change Superhero Movies
Hello Dear Reader! Sorry it has been so long, I've been blogging over on the MSDN site about technology. I'll have a Twitter Sentiment update for Black Panther later...
2018-02-16
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Blog Posts
Black Panther is Going to Change Superhero Movies
Hello Dear Reader! Sorry it has been so long, I've been blogging over on the MSDN site about technology. I'll...
2018-02-16
415 reads
dbatools and Orphaned Users
I really like the dbatools project. This is a series of PowerShell cmdlets that are built by the community and...
2018-02-16
800 reads
Settings Goals Professionally
I was reminded of this topic after yesterday’s #SQLChat. Have you set professional goals for yourself? If so, have you...
2018-02-16 (first published: 2018-02-08)
2,071 reads
tSQLt Course
In the last half of 2017, I decided to run a tSQLt course and went down the route of putting...
2018-02-16 (first published: 2018-02-06)
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"What's New in SQL 2017?" at the Baton Rouge SQL Server UG meeting
We had a great joint meeting tonight of the Baton Rouge SQL and .NET User Groups at the Louisiana Tech...
2018-02-15
554 reads
Azure Data Architecture Guide (ADAG)
The Azure Data Architecture Guide has just been released! Check it out: http://aka.ms/ADAG
Think of it as a menu or syllabus for...
2018-02-15
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Azure Data Architecture Guide (ADAG)
The Azure Data Architecture Guide has just been released! Check it out: http://aka.ms/ADAG
Think of it as a menu or syllabus for...
2018-02-15
1,065 reads
Backups of backups or How long is my backup really available?
I’ve said before that backups are at once one of the easiest things DBAs do, one of the most important,...
2018-02-15 (first published: 2018-02-07)
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Enabling Guest in a Database–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-02-15
1,410 reads
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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