May Question: What’s Your Backup Strategy?
As DBAs, one of our biggest responsibilities is to protect our data with backups. So, for this month’s question, “What’s...
2011-05-01
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 30
For Day 30 of this series, (which is the last day), I am going to talk a little about RAID,...
2011-05-01
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 29
For Day 29 of this series, I am going to talk about some of the basic things that you should...
2011-04-30
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Download: Powershell a Day -April 2011
I you liked my Powershell a day – april 2011, where every day I wrote a blog about powershell you can...
2011-04-30
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Powershell Day 30
Day 30 Best Practice Having good Security is first best practice for any language no exception with Powershell. Having that...
2011-04-30
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Seize the Moment
Today I had a bit of regret slap me in the face. That face slap came from participation in a SQL Quiz on twitter that was hosted by Paul...
2011-04-29
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Seize the Moment
Today I had a bit of regret slap me in the face. That face slap came from participation in a...
2011-04-29
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SQL Saturday 74 Is Here! Register Now! Show Up Tomorrow!
Tomorrow (4/30/2011) is SQL Saturday #74 in Jacksonville Florida and once again, I am giving a talk with other well...
2011-04-29
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Physical Row Location
SQL Server 2008 has presented us a couple of options to aid in becoming better DBA’s. You can see this evidenced in many ways in the product. A couple...
2011-04-29
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Physical Row Location
SQL Server 2008 has presented us a couple of options to aid in becoming better DBA’s. You can see this...
2011-04-29
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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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