Time To Get Your #SQLRally Vote On!
It’s week two of voting for the upcoming SQLRally. This week, we are voting for the Database & Application Development sessions...
2011-01-19
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SSMSDeploy Now Available!
I have finished my website, done all my recompilations, checked all my settings, and finally SSMSDeploy is on the internet,...
2011-01-19
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You Need Two SLAs for Disaster Recovery
Continuing on with my MCM prep, I was listening to the High Availability/DR prep module today and I was once...
2011-01-19
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New PASS Chapter in Orlando–MagicPASS
Kendal Van Dyke is launching a new PASS Chapter called MagicPASS in Orlando this week, with the first meeting on...
2011-01-19
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31 Days of SSIS – SQL Server Configuration (18/31)
31 Days of SSIS
The last post in the 31 Days of SSIS talked about the use of environmental variables. As...
2011-01-19
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Another Example of CPU Throttling Due to Balanced Power Plan in Windows Server 2008 R2
Here is another example CPU throttling from someone who had a server running with the default “Balanced” Power Plan in...
2011-01-18
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PASS SQLRally Professional Development Vote Done and the Development Track Vote is open
Congratulations to the winners in the Professional Development Track Vote for PASS SQLRally. You can see the winners at http://www.sqlpass.org/sqlrally/2011/Agenda/Sessions/SessionsProfessionalDevelopment.aspx. Now the voting is open for the Database &...
2011-01-18
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SQL Lunch - Build Your First PerformancePoint Dashboard with MVP Adam Jorgensen
SQL Lunch - Building a Performance Point Dashboard
Don't forget to attend the SQLLunch tomorrow.
#35-Building your first PerformancePoint Dashboard in SharePoint 2010
Speaker:...
2011-01-18
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Getting Fast Counts of Large Service Broker Queues
Getting Fast Counts of Large Service Broker Queues
This question regarding getting a fast count from a service broker queue came...
2011-01-18
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PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 4
Recap So far we’ve walked though how to turn on PowerShell and add modules, adding SQL Server 2008 snapins and using PowerShell variables, what cmdlets and functions are, what...
2011-01-18
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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...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
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The Hidden Security Risks of Role Combination in SSAS Tabular
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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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