Webinar – SQL Server BI Best Practices
I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com on Thursday March 10, 2016.
The title is SQL Server BI Best Practices and its...
2016-02-24
698 reads
Koen Verbeeck
Speaking at the first Belgian SQLSaturday!
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be giving a session at the very first SQLSaturday (aka SQLSaturday 505) in Belgium....
2016-02-15
501 reads
Reblog: SSIS Performance Testing
I had to do some performance testing for an MSSQLTips article and I thought I’d share the framework I used in...
2016-02-19 (first published: 2016-02-12)
1,743 reads
The Future of SSMS
One of the smaller announcements amidst the gazillion new features of SQL Server 2016, is that SSMS is now a...
2016-02-03
631 reads
Book Review – Expert Performance Indexing
A few weeks back, the folks at Apress Publishing sent me a copy of the book Expert Performance Indexing in...
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
2,083 reads
Reblog: Building the Script Component
SQLKover update: For some reason, this was my most popular blog post on the old LTD site. Over 110,000 views. People...
2016-01-28
870 reads
Overview of Published Articles – 2015Q4
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the final quarter of 2015:
Integrated Logging with the Integration Services Package...
2016-01-22
502 reads
Book review – Extending SSIS with .NET Scripting
Recently I got my hands on a copy of Extending SSIS with .NET Scripting, written by SQL Server MVP Joost...
2016-01-29 (first published: 2016-01-21)
2,866 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #74: Be the Change
It’s the second Tuesday of the month and you know what that means! T-SQL Tuesday time! If you don’t know...
2016-01-20 (first published: 2016-01-12)
1,390 reads
Happy Holidays
It’s the time of the year again: the obligatory “how was the past year” blog post, combined with “what do...
2015-12-29
797 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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