DBCC CHECKDB
Quite often when I see a new SQL Server setup, a CHECKDB has never been run on the databases. It’s...
2012-05-31 (first published: 2012-05-29)
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Blog Posts
Denali – Day 31: Discontinue and Breaking/Behavior change features
Denali – Day 31: Discontinue and Breaking/Behavior change features Discontinue Features: As discussed about Deprecated will going to discontinue with that...
2012-05-31
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How to Give your .NET application HA
By David Postlethwaite
I was at a meeting the other week when someone mentioned that you could specify two SQL Servers...
2012-05-31
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How to synchronize the data from the Production environment to Development, Testing and Staging Environments for SQL Server? (Republished)
How to synchronize the data from the Production environment to Development, Testing and Staging Environments for SQL Server? (Republished)
One of...
2012-05-31
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Never, Ever Use Clustered Indexes
This whole concept of the clustered index as a foundational structure within SQL Server is just plain nuts. Sure, I...
2012-05-31
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No More SQLRally In the US
I was disappointed to see the mention in the Connector today that there would be no SQLRally 2013 in the...
2012-05-31
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Planning the Development, Testing, Staging, and Production Environments for SQL Server part 1 (Republished)
When asked about how to plan the ideal dev, test, staging and production SQL Server environments it’s easy to get...
2012-05-31
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SQL Saturday #167 – Columbus GA
The Columbus GA SQL Users Group will be hosting their first ever SQL Saturday on September 8th 2012 at Columbus...
2012-05-31
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SSIS Project Connection Managers
With the new Project Deployment Model in SSIS developers are gaining the benefit of a new design time only feature...
2012-05-31
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Turn on Instant File Initialization for SQL Server Performance – With Video Demo
Without Instant File Initialization turned on, each time a data file on SQL Server 2005 and above is created or...
2012-05-31
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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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