ComputeReach
Man it's tough to get in all that you want to do, isn't it? I've been trying to get my...
2012-07-21
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Tip: Usage of SYSDATETIME() vs GETDATE()
Usage of GETDATE() dates back to the earliest versions of SQL server and has become the primary blade in our...
2012-07-21
2,772 reads
New articles posted.
My article Plotting SQL Server Data for Data Visualization is up on MSSQLTips now and discusses using PyQt and Matplotlib...
2012-07-21
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The Mentoring Experiment is taking applications
If you would like a mentor, we’ are taking applications at The Mentoring Experiment. We ran this last year and...
2012-07-20
1,158 reads
Presentations That Exceed The Allotted Time
Back in February I did a presentation for MagicPASS that ran long, maybe 30 minutes over the time allotted. It...
2012-07-20
834 reads
SQL CREATE TABLE Statement
We have created a simple tutorial for SQL Create Table that may help some of you to prepare for Microsoft...
2012-07-20
681 reads
technorati blog directory 8HBVGY7K4K5E
We found another Blog directory that is willing to accept our RSS feed. And we have been asked to put...
2012-07-20
518 reads
Parallel Execution in SSIS with MaxConcurrentExecutables
MaxConcurrentExecutables, a package level property in SSIS determines the number of control flow items that can be executed in parallel....
2012-07-20
19,597 reads
Contained Databases – Server Setting Matters
In doing some additional testing on contained databases, I decided to create a new database on a new test VM.
CREATE...
2012-07-19
2,154 reads
SQL Saturday #150 and TechDay Baton Rouge–BI 1 track
The SQL Saturday/TechDay in Baton Rouge will be the forth annual this year. The Business Intelligence sessions occupy 2 tracks...
2012-07-19
897 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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