Head back up above water
I've spent the last few weeks writing SOX documentation, more SOX
documentation, and even more SOX documentation. A lot the documentation
doesn't...
2005-09-02
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Blog Posts
Of anarchy and thin veneers...
Following the horrifying stories that are unfolding in the aftermath of
Katrina, it is difficult for the mind to single out...
2005-09-02
1,336 reads
The Data Center in New Orleans
There's a blog running at LiveJournal from one of the guys at directnic. There's evidently an ISP that is still...
2005-09-02
1,478 reads
Blessed to live in the boring MidWest
The images on the TV news this morning were surreal. Hundereds of people dead, missing, homeless because of Katrina and...
2005-08-31
1,288 reads
Plagiarism
Seen this from Kevin Kline?
We went back and forth along with a few others this morning looking at
the many places,...
2005-08-30
1,627 reads
New Author Experience
I was just reading Andy Leonard's blog about being a new author and thought, hey, I need a blog, too!
I'm...
2005-08-29
1,338 reads
Online Protection
Grr, it's annoying, but it's a good thing.
After the ASP.NET errors, I ordered memory a few days ago from
Crucial.com. They...
2005-08-29
1,361 reads
Technology in Schools
There's an interesting series about technology in schools in Milwaukee
(part
1, part
2, and part
3) and it inspired me to an edditorial...
2005-08-24
1,824 reads
Out of Memory
We had a major out of memory error on ASP.NET this morning and I woke
up to a few dozen messages...
2005-08-23
1,388 reads
Two of 10
The top ten MS blogs were
listed in Redmond magazine and two were SQL Server guys. I do get quite
a few...
2005-08-19
1,388 reads
Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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...
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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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