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2012-07-11 (first published: 2012-07-03)
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SSIS SCD vs MERGE Statement – Performance Comparison
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2012-07-03
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (July 2012)
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2012-07-03
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Speaker Selection for SQLSaturday Orlando-Group #4
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2012-07-03
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SQL Server Auditing – Getting started
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2012-07-03
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July 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
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2012-07-03
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Lunch is for Wimps
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2012-07-03
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SQL Server Get Identity after Insert using SP
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2012-07-03
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RSS pubDate format in SQL Server
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2012-07-02
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Colorado Wildfires
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2012-07-02
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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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