The Standing Desk Experiment
I’ve had a few friends using standing desks for sometime. I first heard about Greg Gonzalez (sqlSentry | Blog | @SQLSensei), fellow...
2012-05-29
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SQL Saturday in Rochester Exceeds Expectations
After being forced to deliver sour grapes in my last few columns – thanks to some unexpectedly negative experiences with Oracle...
2012-05-29
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The SQL in the City US Tour
If you haven’t heard yet, Red Gate Software is sponsoring a six city tour of the United States of its...
2012-06-01 (first published: 2012-05-29)
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Oracle Date issues with PowerPivot
This week I was building power pivot models for a client pulling data from Oracle. One table kept giving the...
2012-05-29
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Building a SQL Server Inventory – Part 1
Ok folks, you asked for it. Well, a few of you did, anyway. So today I’m going to share with...
2012-05-31 (first published: 2012-05-29)
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The Rules of Gibbs
It’s been interesting to watch the characters evolve on NCIS over the years, something that can only happen with time...
2012-05-29
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Detecting Database Option Changes with DDL Triggers
One of the keys to managing a large production SQL Server environment is being aware of changes that are taking...
2012-06-05 (first published: 2012-05-29)
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Denali – Day 29: Resource Governor Enhancements (Database Engine)
Denali – Day 29: Resource Governor Enhancements (Database Engine) Introduction to Resource Governor: Resource Governor is a feature introduced in sql...
2012-05-29
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Books for Learning Transact SQL
I got asked a question recently about what books I would recommend for learning T-SQL. I posted a couple months...
2012-05-29
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DBCC CHECKDB
Quite often when I see a new SQL Server setup, a CHECKDB has never been run on the databases. It’s...
2012-05-31 (first published: 2012-05-29)
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Blogs
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...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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Let's Talk Certifications
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The Hidden Security Risks of Role Combination in SSAS Tabular
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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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