Google Correlate
My friend Rob Hatton pointed me to Google Correlate, a new service that lets you explore data trends in a...
2011-06-30
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2011-06-30
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Minnesota SQL Server Study Group (July)
Study Group
For the past few months, I’ve been openly working towards the SQL Server MCM. I failed a couple times...
2011-06-30
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The difference between REVOKE and DENY
There was confusion recently with a poster that was moving permissions around and asked why I said they should revoke...
2011-06-30
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Belt and braces
A moment ago, I was deep in some coding. What it was is not entirely relevant, With a page-full of...
2011-06-30
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Awesome Reports Webinar Tomorrow at 11AM
Here at Pragmatic Works, we enjoy putting on a show for the community. As can be seen by Training on...
2011-06-30
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Watermarking
Someone asked me a long time ago how to do watermarking in Reporting Services and I meant to write a...
2011-06-30
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2011-06-29
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The mystery of the NULL bitmap mask
In today's weblog post I want to talk about the NULL bitmap mask and some mysteries
that you can encounter with...
2011-06-29
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Why I’m raising my son to be a nerd
A good read, from ESPN and CNN columnist, LZ Granderson: Why I’m raising my son to be a nerd.
We need...
2011-06-29
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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“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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