Presenting Dr. DMV by Live Meeting on April 19 at 12PM CDT
I will be presenting my Dr. DMV presentation for the St. Louis SQL Server User’s Group on April 19. Here...
2011-04-07
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 7
For Day 7 of this series, I will talk about the incredibly useful CPU-Z utility, which is available for free...
2011-04-07
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S3OLV April Change
Earlier this week I announced the meeting for the Las Vegas User Group. I blasted some of you with emails – along with people in our mailing list. Those...
2011-04-07
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S3OLV April Change
Earlier this week I announced the meeting for the Las Vegas User Group. I blasted some of you with emails...
2011-04-07
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Me Me Me, Event Event Event
Dear Readers,
Today’s blog shall be entirely stream-of-consciousness, which is to say, I don’t know exactly what I’m going to talk...
2011-04-07
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SQL Saturday #70
This blog is long overdue about my journey to Columbia SC for SQL Saturday #70. I was very fortunate to...
2011-04-07
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Should a DBA be involved in the physical set up of a Database Server? Part 3
This series of blog is to give a general idea what you could look at when setting up a new...
2011-04-07
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I Got Registered!
I’m going to SQL Rally! Are you going to SQL Rally? Have you heard of SQL Rally?
What’s SQL Rally?
I’m glad...
2011-04-07
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SnapManager Epic Fail – oh dear!
An ex colleague and good friend of mine has recently been having trouble with Snapmanager for SQL, anyone had similar...
2011-04-07
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Powershell Day 7
Day 7 – Security With great power comes great responsibility.—Stan Lee, The Amazing Spiderman So far We have discussed simple general...
2011-04-07
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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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