31 Days of SSIS – The Introduction
31 Days of SSIS
Last year, Glenn Berry (Blog | @GlennAlanBerry) wrote a series of posts that he called A DMV A...
2011-01-01
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Re-Awarded MVP for 2011
I received my notice that I was renewed as a MIcrosoft MVP for SQL Server for 2011. It's a nice...
2011-01-01
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MVP Award for 2011
I just received notification from the Microsoft MVP Award Program that I’ve received the MVP award for SQL Server for...
2011-01-01
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Easy CDC part 2: Automating a Quick Initial Load, and Some Gotchas
Introduction
A couple of weeks ago I made this post about quickly building a CDC system against a vendor ERP database....
2011-01-01
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2010 Goals Review
I started the year with 10 Goals for 2010 and now I'll end it by looking at how many of...
2010-12-31
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – Substring() Function
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
Within the...
2010-12-31
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Happy New Year
Well it’s Friday again and another big day.
Hopefully you all had a great Christmas and as we move to...
2010-12-31
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2010 - A Year without Specific Goals
In previous years I had set goals and even if I didn't fully achieve them, they were helpful in giving...
2010-12-31
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The Year of Change: 2010 In Review
Like clockwork, another year has come and (almost) gone. It’s been a wild year on many fronts: major happenings included...
2010-12-31
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Blogging on Blogging
So I must confess that my blogging efforts to date have been on the impersonal side
– perhaps even a bit...
2010-12-31
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Blogs
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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