Automatically re-write non-sargable isnulls into sargable code in SSDT
"where ISNULL(column, 'DontMatch') = 'Match'" - is kind of a bad thing to do in SQL as it means that any index...
2015-12-10
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Automatically re-write non-sargable isnulls into sargable code in SSDT
“where ISNULL(column, ‘DontMatch’) = ‘Match’” - is kind of a bad thing to do in SQL as it means that any index on column can't be used. It is...
2015-12-10
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Automatically re-write non-sargable isnulls into sargable code in SSDT
“where ISNULL(column, ‘DontMatch’) = ‘Match’” - is kind of a bad thing to do in SQL as it means that any index...
2015-12-10
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Automatically re-write non-sargable isnulls into sargable code in SSDT
“where ISNULL(column, ‘DontMatch’) = ‘Match’” - is kind of a bad thing to do in SQL as it means that any index...
2015-12-10
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SQLSaturday Message Templates – Copy From Other Events
For those of you with access to the SQLSaturday admin site (used by event leaders) one of the things you...
2015-12-10
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The Hour of Code 2015
This year I was interested to see that they did the Hour of Code in the elementary school my daughter...
2015-12-10
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SQL F.A.D. – Trace flag 834 and columnstore indexes - Syndication – WaterOx Consulting
Trace flags can be good Are special codes we, the DBA, can use to change the way the SQL Server...
2015-12-10
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Promote Community
When I present at any given event, I generally assume that the people attending have heard of the event that...
2015-12-10
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Using unique constraints
I ran into an interesting problem the other day. Given the title of the post, obviously a unique constraint was...
2015-12-10
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Hadoop Fundamentals
Have you heard about Hadoop, but never really understood what it’s all about?
Do you need to learn about Hadoop, either...
2015-12-14 (first published: 2015-12-10)
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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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