Working with bitwise data in SQL Server
I was working with a group of students on a design brief. The brief was to partially implement a database...
2012-05-10
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Blog Posts
Backup database in CMS
Sometime you know the database name which you want to backup, but you don't know which server it is on....
2012-05-09
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Denali — Day 9: Additional Scalability Features
Denali – Day 9: Additional Scalability Features
15,000 Partitions earlier it was 1000For the enterprise system having huge amount of data to...
2012-05-09
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DQS Domain Validation Rules
A compelling feature of the new Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012 is the ability to apply rules to...
2012-05-09 (first published: 2012-05-04)
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Thank You to the People That Get Us There
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Hello Dear Reader starting today out in Dallas Texas at the Dallas Convention Center is the Second Annual SQL Rally. ...
2012-05-09
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Top 20 Reasons Why Bill 101 Is a Nuisance to Modern Quebec Society: Greatest Hits of the Tyranny of Bill 101
Quebec's Shameful, Coercive Language Law‘Je me souviens’ les palmarès Top 20 de la loi 101 sacrée qui nuit à la...
2012-05-09
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Your SQL Server database just failed, can you restore the backup?
It’s one thing to be able to backup a database, it’s another thing to be able to restore it into...
2012-05-09
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“Thou Shall Not Shrink the Database” #TSQL2sDay
This month, Chris Shaw (Blog | @sqlshaw) is leading the charge on the T-SQL Tuesday. This event is basically a blogging...
2012-05-08
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Denali — Day 8: Startup Parameter
Denali – Day 8: Startup Parameter
Startup Parameters means you are providing the parameter to sql server at the start of sql...
2012-05-08
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Favorite DBA Books
In the April 2012 Question of the Month, I asked readers to tell me their favorite DBA books. I have...
2012-05-08 (first published: 2012-05-01)
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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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