New Microsoft BI Labs site
Interesting new BI site from Microsoft called “BI Labs“. This site says: “BI Labs is a collection of experimental business...
2011-05-18
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The Recursive CTE
(Yet another boring org chart example – except this one has multiple roots)
One of my apps has a hierarchial org chart...
2011-05-18
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PASS Summit Session Votes
I blogged a week ago about the sessions that I submitted for the PASS Summit this year. At the point...
2011-05-18
1,082 reads
How To Make Your Laptop 100x Faster
Simon Sabin had his own take on increasing laptop speed. He had some good ideas, but he inspired me to...
2011-05-18
2,337 reads
How To: Use the Same Data Flow Column Twice As a Parameter in SSIS
Every once in a while, you'll have a slightly more complex UPDATE statement in an OLE DB Command or Destination. You'll use an UPDATE statement or a destination table that needsto use...
2011-05-18
14 reads
How To: Use the Same Data Flow Column Twice As a Parameter in SSIS
Every once in a while, you'll have a slightly more complex UPDATE statement in an OLE DB Command or Destination. You'll use an UPDATE statement or a destination table that needsto use...
2011-05-18
21 reads
How To: Use the Same Data Flow Column Twice As a Parameter in SSIS
Every once in a while, you'll have a slightly more complex UPDATE statement in an OLE DB Command or Destination. ...
2011-05-18
1,385 reads
Where to put the logic? SQL? Code?
A discussion of where logic should go and why SQL might be the best place.
SQL is a powerful language and...
2011-05-18
846 reads
Not. Quite. There. This Time I Failed the Lab
Since I’ve been blogging about my progress through the SQL Server MCM certification, it makes sense to follow-up with my...
2011-05-17
682 reads
SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU14 and SQL Server 2008 SP2 CU4 Released
Microsoft has released two new Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008 SP1 and SQL Server 2008 SP2. The first one...
2011-05-17
1,531 reads
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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