SQL Server Connections Discount Code
If you are thinking about attending SQL Server Connections (a part of DevConnections) in Orlando this March 27-30, take advantage...
2011-03-10
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SQLRally–Convince The Boss
This week the SQLRally team published some notes to help you convince the boss to send you to three days...
2011-03-10
1,560 reads
SQL University – Teach Your Children Well
“If you had a daughter, would you really encourage her to get into IT?” … “Yes, if she loved it.”
- My...
2011-03-10
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SQLSaturday in Hawaii, Portugal, and New Zealand
Just a quick post today for those you who haven’t visited www.sqlsaturday.com lately, we’ve got a lot of events coming...
2011-03-10
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SQL Server Connectivity Issues with Named Instances
This came up on Twitter last night and if you're not very strong on networking, this can be really confusing....
2011-03-10
13,521 reads
SQL Server Videos on Channel 9 From Microsoft
Here is a collection of 13 short (less than 10 minutes each) videos about improvements in SQL Server Denali, and...
2011-03-09
1,854 reads
Las Vegas SQL Server User’s Group Presentation on March 10
I will be giving a virtual presentation via LiveMeeting on March 10, 2011. The S3OLV User Group meeting starts at...
2011-03-09
646 reads
Database Maintenance
I often see a request for some scripts to help with database maintenance. Sometimes those questions come in the form of recommendation requests for maintenance plans. As many already...
2011-03-09
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Database Maintenance
I often see a request for some scripts to help with database maintenance. Sometimes those questions come in the form...
2011-03-09
1,045 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #016 – Aggregation
It’s that time of month again, time for Adam Machanic’s (Twitter | Blog) T-SQL Tuesday blog party. This month the party...
2011-03-09
819 reads
Blogs
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...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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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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