Two Digit Dates in SQL – MM/DD/YYYY
When creating dates or numbers as strings it is sometimes required to have two digit numbers.
For example, instead of...
2014-03-10
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SSRS Top N and Bottom N reporting with Duplicates
Previously I wrote a blog on Top N and Bottom N reporting. There were a couple of gotcha I did...
2014-03-13 (first published: 2014-03-03)
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SSRS Top N and Bottom N reporting with Duplicates
Previously I wrote a blog on Top N and Bottom N reporting. There were a couple of gotcha I did...
2014-03-03
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Standard Deviations with CTE in SQL
I was working with a client recently getting the number of standard deviations a student was off the average number...
2014-02-27 (first published: 2014-02-24)
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Standard Deviations with CTE in SQL
I was working with a client recently getting the number of standard deviations a student was off the average number...
2014-02-24
362 reads
SSRS – Creating Drill Through reports with MDX
If you are reporting from a Cube in SSRS and you want to drill through to another report you can...
2014-02-10
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SSRS – Creating Drill Through reports with MDX
If you are reporting from a Cube in SSRS and you want to drill through to another report you can...
2014-02-10
359 reads
SSIS – Using Kill with SP_Who to Break locks
The dreaded table lock can occur and cause your SSIS packages to fail. A popular request I receive asks “How...
2014-02-03
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SSIS – Using Kill with SP_Who to Break locks
The dreaded table lock can occur and cause your SSIS packages to fail. A popular request I receive asks “How...
2014-02-03
428 reads
SSAS Trending KPI
KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) in Analysis Services are a great way to show visually if a measure is trending in...
2014-01-27
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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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