PASS Nomination Committee
For some reason, which isn’t completely clear to me, we’re voting for part of the members of the Nomination Committee...
2012-06-13
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Blog Posts
Service Broker: What does a DBA need to know?
Service Broker is SQL Server’s internal messaging system. It has been designed as an asynchronous, reliable and transactional messaging system...
2012-06-13 (first published: 2012-06-07)
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Do You Document Your SQL Server Instances?
When I was a novice DBA, I spent little time documenting my SQL Servers. But as I became more experienced,...
2012-06-12 (first published: 2012-06-05)
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SQL Saturday Pensacola presentation file downloads
I had a great weekend at my fourth annual visit to Pensacola for SQL Saturday, which had many great sponsors,...
2012-06-12
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SQL Server 2005 Diagnostic Information Queries (June 2012)
Here is the latest version of my SQL Server 2005 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements, including...
2012-06-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #31 – Bulk-Logged Recovery Model and Point-in-time Restore
T-SQL Tuesday #31 – Bulk-Logged Recovery Model and Point-in-time Restore
This blog entry is participating in T-SQL Tuesday #31, hosted this month...
2012-06-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #31 – Logging
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Aaron Nelson (@SQLvariant | Blog). The topic is about logging. Many will talk about...
2012-06-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #31 – Logging
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again, and this month Aaron Nelson (blog | @sqlvariant) is hosting. The topic is logging, and if...
2012-06-12
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Using PowerPivot to Monitor Reporting Services
PowerPivot is a powerful new tool from Microsoft that has been improved even more in the 2012 release, which you...
2012-06-12
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Creating a Filetable
How do you create a filetable? I assume you’ve enabled Filestream and created a filegroup for your filestream and filetable...
2012-06-11 (first published: 2012-06-05)
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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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