Microsoft Failover cluster 2008 : Moving MSDTC to new SAN disk
We have four node cluster on Windows 2008 where the MSDTC disk hosted on a SAN array. Now we have...
2012-03-28
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (April 2012)
Since it is nearly April, I will go ahead and jump the gun again and post an updated version of...
2012-03-28
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Stress Thoughts-Part 3
It’s not fair. I hear it a couple times a day. Sometimes they are right, sometimes not, but it’s how...
2012-03-28
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TinyInt problem in SSAS
If you have a source table that has a Tinyint primary key column defined as IDENTITY and you create a...
2012-03-28
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Presenting at SQL Saturday #111
On Saturday, April 14, 2012, I’ll be presenting “Table Vars and Temp Tables – What you NEED to know!” at SQL...
2012-03-28
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The Encryption Primer
SQL Server has a number of encryption features that allow you to better secure your data. This session will examine...
2012-03-28
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Unstructured Data in SQL Server
More and more of our data does not fit neatly into a structured, relational model of rows and columns of...
2012-03-28
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SQL Server # Storing Hierarchical Data – Parent Child n’th level # TSQL
Introduction
Today, I would like to explain one way in which we can store the HIERARCHICAL data in SQL tables. A...
2012-03-28
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SQL Server # Storing Hierarchical Data – Parent Child n’th level # TSQL
Introduction
Today, I would like to explain one way in which we can store the HIERARCHICAL data in SQL tables. A...
2012-03-27
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X on XMLA: ii. Basic Structure of XMLA
The second post in the XMLA series focuses on the basic structure of XMLA. At its heart, XMLA is XML. ...
2012-03-27
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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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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