A Script A Day - Day 26 - RESTART a Database Restore
Today’s script is another one based on database restores. There is a little known clause of the RESTORE DATABASE command...
2012-02-29
2,872 reads
Script SQL Server Agent Jobs Using PowerShell
It’s that time of the month again, no not that one, it’s T-SQL Tuesday time and this weeks topic is...
2012-02-29
4,765 reads
A Script A Day - Day 25 - Performance Counters
Today’s script is based on performance counters and in particular the sys.dm_performance_counters DMV. There are many ways in which to...
2012-02-29
2,328 reads
Write a Variable To a File Using SSIS
Problem
I’ve a SSIS package. When it fails execution, I want to write a custom message including the package name and error...
2012-02-29
6,042 reads
What I Want For My Birthday
Dell has teased us with some images of their upcoming 12th Generation servers (that will support the Intel Sandy Bridge-EP...
2012-02-29
1,802 reads
Misadventures in TDE: How to Restore an Encrypted SQL Server Database Completely Wrong
Doing things by the book isn’t necessarily the only way to learn a new skill. Sometimes, experiencing everything that can...
2012-02-28
4,121 reads
How’s Microsoft doing with community involvement? (updated)
Update: Jen Lussier has blogged a summary of the talks she had at the MVP summit last week. Take a...
2012-02-28
1,614 reads
A Script A Day - Day 24 - Object Qualification
Today’s script is one I use as an example to explain that there is method behind my standards that some...
2012-02-28
1,522 reads
SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Diagnostic Queries for March 2012
Since it is nearly March, I will go ahead and jump the gun by a few days and post an...
2012-02-28
1,856 reads
Monday Morning Mistakes: Not Setting Memory Limits
Welcome back to another addition of Monday Morning Mistakes series. Today’s issue is one I tend to run into quite...
2012-03-12 (first published: 2012-02-28)
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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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