T-SQL Tuesday Reminder – Coming next week
Matt Velic is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month. You have a week to get a post ready on the apply...
2011-04-11
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SSIS Job Ownership
I was strolling along one day when I saw somebody asking how to find out who owns a maintenance plan. That evolved into finding out who owns the the...
2011-04-11
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SSIS Job Ownership
I was strolling along one day when I saw somebody asking how to find out who owns a maintenance plan....
2011-04-11
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If you truly want to understand something try and change it.
I saw this quote on facebook last week and it really hit close to home. I had just started working...
2011-04-11
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April PASSMN Meeting (April 19)
Every career, whether on purpose or accident, is a journey from one job or project to another. To achieve great...
2011-04-11
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#SqlBits and SSIS custom components
If you are in anyway interested in SQL Server and live in the UK, you cant of failed to of...
2011-04-11
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Cloud computing – not without risk?
Interesting quote from Sharepoint Best Practices Conference :” 17% of IT Pros think benefits of cloud computing outweigh the risks”!!
That’s not...
2011-04-11
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SQLBits Attendance Breaks Previous Records
How many people can you identify in the above photo from the closing party at SQLBits? Can you find Ola...
2011-04-11
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Powershell Day 11
Day 11 COM and WMI Powershell is a very powerful language, with Powershell we can achieve same result with the...
2011-04-11
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Slides & Samples for my SQLbits session
As announced in both of my sessions, you can download the slides & samples for
my SQLbits sessions here:
Message
in a Bottle: Service...
2011-04-11
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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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