Thinking About the 2021 PASS Summit
I know that we don’t yet know how the 2020 Summit will turn out, but I’ll make some guesses: A lot of people like it for the lower cost,...
2020-08-18 (first published: 2020-08-05)
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Daily Coping 5 Aug 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-08-05
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Quick SSMS Tip: Map Mode for Code–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. In recent versions of SSMS, there’s been an...
2020-08-05
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What Agent Jobs are Running??
Do you run SQL Agent Jobs in your environment? Do you know what is running at any given time? Most people do not know what is currently running if...
2020-08-13 (first published: 2020-08-04)
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Unboxing SQL Clone 2020 for a PoC
When I got a new machine, I had SQL Clone on my old machine, in a few VMWare VMs. I decided to move this to my new machine, so...
2020-08-13 (first published: 2020-08-04)
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Daily Coping 4 Aug 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-08-04
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Azure SQL Database SLA
Can you improve on the baseline (service level agreement) SLA of 99.99 % for Azure SQL Database? How can you get 99.995% as shown below, from official Microsoft documentation?...
2020-08-04
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Speaking at DataMinds Connect 2020
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be speaking again at DataMinds Connect this year, one of the greatest and best Microsoft Data Platform conferences on the European mainland. Due to...
2020-08-04
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SQLSaturday Auckland: Certification Exams Inside Out this Weekend!
Looking forward to virtually presenting at SQLSaturday Auckland 2020 this weekend! I'll be presenting at 10:45AM Auckland time on Saturday, but that's 5:45pm Friday evening where I am in Central...
2020-08-03
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Data Cleanup for WordPress Tags without a Plugin
Over the years I’ve had this blog, I’ve added lots of tags. In 15 years and 4,600+ posts, you can guess that I’ve made some typos and mistakes. I’ve...
2020-08-03
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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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