TSQL Tuesday #150 – My first technical job
It’s that time of the month again, the blog party, woohoo! This time Kenneth Fisher (b | t) has invited us to blog about our first tech job. Oh...
2022-05-30 (first published: 2022-05-10)
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Database Superhero’s Blog
Setting Up SQL Audit for STIG Compliance
Recently I spent months of my lift working on STIG and CIS compliance at my job and one of those tasks was setting up SQL Audit for STIG. Now,...
2022-04-29 (first published: 2022-04-18)
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Using dbachecks for CIS Security Checks
Well back at the end of 2019 I finished writing most of the checks related to the CIS Center for Internet Security requirements. I have yet to write a...
2022-02-02 (first published: 2022-01-21)
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Happy New Year!
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause...
2021-01-01
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Blogs
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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