Just Deserts
Here’s another photo from my phone, this one from SQLSaturday Tampa in the cafeteria area. An easy typo to make,...
2011-06-02
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Duplicate Identity Values?
Can you have duplicate values in a field with the identity property? Of course, and this does it.
DROP TABLE dbo.MyTable
CREATE...
2011-06-02
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PASS 2011 Pre-Conference Seminars and Spotlight Sessions Released
I have wanted to go to PASS Summit for the last several years, but have yet to get an opportunity...
2011-06-02
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Do You Ever Physically Defragment Your SQL Server MDF & LDF Files?
Every since the first file was written to a floppy disk drive using DOS, physical file fragmentation has been a...
2011-06-01
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DQ & MDM Book Available to Download
If you’re looking for a resource on the Data Quality and Master Data Management features in SQL Server 2008 R2,...
2011-06-01
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PerformancePoint wish list – change a datasource
One item on my PerformancePoint wish list is the ability to change a datasource for an Analytic Chart/Grid. There is...
2011-06-01
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PASS Announces Pre-conference and Spotlight Sessions for PASS 2011 Summit
Today, PASS announced the Pre-conference and Spotlight Sessions for the PASS Summit 2011 in Seattle, which will run from October...
2011-06-01
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SQL Saturday Pensacola
I know it has been almost a month since I posted last and this is not really a “real” post,...
2011-06-01
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Re-Focusing the Blog a Bit
In recent weeks I've strayed pretty much all over the map with respect to topics. I have another blog, the...
2011-06-01
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June Question: How Do You Monitor Your SQL Servers?
As DBAs, one of our biggest responsibilities is to monitor our SQL Servers to ensure they are performing as expected....
2011-06-01
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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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