May 2011 S3OLV Meeting
After a whirlwind of last minute changes last month, we expect stability this month with the monthly meeting. Meeting Time is 6:30PM PST Erika Bakse (blog | twitter) has...
2011-05-03
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May 2011 S3OLV Meeting
After a whirlwind of last minute changes last month, we expect stability this month with the monthly meeting.
Meeting Time is...
2011-05-03
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T-SQL Tuesday #18 Coming Next Week
Other than the week I hosted it, I’ve been caught off guard by T-SQL Tuesday most months. This time I...
2011-05-03
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Indexing for ORs
All of the indexing strategy posts I’ve written in the past have been concerned with predicates combined with ANDs. That’s...
2011-05-03
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How often do you check email?
If you read the experts, most folks check their emails too many times during the day. Today, while giving a...
2011-05-03
796 reads
Iterating Over Columns in the SSIS Script Component
Just recently a question was posed in the MSDN SSIS Forums about how to create a "generic" script component that would read all columns for each row passed through...
2011-05-03
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Iterating Over Columns in the SSIS Script Component
Just recently a question was posed in the MSDN SSIS Forums about how to create a "generic" script component that would read all columns for each row passed through...
2011-05-03
155 reads
Calling all UK Bloggers…
Amazingly It’s been just over 4 months since I started my list of UK based SQL Server bloggers, and I...
2011-05-03
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My Partitioning And Compression Quest!
So I have a pretty big database (around 1 TB) that’s getting a bit out of
hand. I inherited it...
2011-05-03
667 reads
Iterating Over Columns in the SSIS Script Component
Just recently a question was posed in the MSDN SSIS Forums about how to create a "generic" script component that...
2011-05-03
13,278 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...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
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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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