O, There’s the Data: Using OData in SSIS
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open specification created Microsoft to enable exposing data in a standard way from...
2012-07-23
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SQL DEFAULT CONSTRAINT Syntax
This time we show how to use SQL DEFAULT CONSTRAINT to provide values for fields that are not given a...
2012-07-23
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Windows Cluster: Moving Quorum Disk to Another Node
In my earlier post I have explained about various quorum settings available in Microsoft windows 2008 cluster environment. While we plan to...
2012-07-23
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SQL CHECK CONSTRAINT Syntax
We have now added SQL CHECK CONSTRAINT to Exam Guide 70-461 Querying SQL Server 2012 and SQL Tutorial
2012-07-23
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SQL PRIMARY KEY CONSTRAINT Syntax
In this tutorial we show how to use ALTER TABLE and add Primary key constraint. This tutorial support our Exam...
2012-07-23
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TechEd Europe 2012 videos online
Microsoft has posted ALL the session videos for TechEd Europe 2012 and they are available for free! What a great...
2012-07-23
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As one door closes another one opens
Normally I try and keep the things that happen at work separate from my blog, however it’s been an interesting...
2012-07-27 (first published: 2012-07-23)
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Working at Home Tips for Erin
A friend of mine, Erin Stellato (blog | @erinstellato) is about to change jobs. She’ll go from working in an office...
2012-07-26 (first published: 2012-07-23)
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PowerPivot default measure aggregation
One of the PowerPivot advantages is flexibility of changing measure aggregation for instance changing average to minimum. PowerPivot applies default...
2012-07-23
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PowerPivot hide fields and unhide in Excel 2013
In this PowerPivot tutorial I show how to improve user experience by hiding fields from PivotTable (client tool) so user...
2012-07-23
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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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