Object Explorer Details (Day 21)
The Object Explorer Details windows (from the View menu, or the keyboard shortcut F7) displays detail information about the objects...
2018-01-21
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Blog Posts
Get Data experience from Excel to Power BI and SQL Server Analysis Services 2017
(2018-Jan-20) It has been a long journey for the Excel data integration tool Power Query from its early version as...
2018-01-20
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I've been chosen to speak at SQL Saturday Guatemala
I'm thrilled to announce that one of my proposals has been chosen to be presented in Guatemala's SQL Saturday that will be held on February 3rd at the Francisco...
2018-01-20
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Object Explorer Filtering (Day 20)
If you have a database with hundreds (or thousands) of objects, finding the one that you are looking for in...
2018-01-20
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Object Explorer Filtering (Day 20)
If you have a database with hundreds (or thousands) of objects, finding the one that you are looking for in...
2018-01-20
140 reads
Advent of Code 2017 Day 2–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-01-19 (first published: 2018-01-11)
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Faster
In the human history, there was a huge drive (such an ambiguous meaning here) to get faster.
Maybe within our DNA...
2018-01-19
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Finding the Default Path with dbatools
I really like the dbatools project. This is a series of PowerShell cmdlets that are built by the community and...
2018-01-19
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Friday Reading 2018-01-19
It’s been absolutely freezing here in Dublin this week. Been spending pretty much all time wrapped up indoors reading…
Discussing PASS...
2018-01-19
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Implementing SSL for Your Blog
With the announcement of the recent security issues, namely Meltdown and Spectre, we at Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting have been...
2018-01-19
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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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