T-SQL Tuesday #113 – What Do I Use MY Databases For?
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog is brought to us by Todd Kleinhans (b | t) and this month topic is about what you use databases in your personally life. ...
2019-04-09
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Writing Crossword puzzles with a database: T-SQL Tuesday #113
Todd Kleinhans (b/t) is host for T-SQL Tuesday this month and wants us to talk about how we use databases ... Continue reading
2019-04-19 (first published: 2019-04-09)
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Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions
SQL Server needs to make sure data types match when performing operations that involve multiple pieces of data. When the data types do not match, SQL Server has to...
2019-04-22 (first published: 2019-04-09)
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Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions
Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server needs to make sure data types match when performing operations that involve multiple pieces of data.
When the data types do not match,...
2019-04-09
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Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions
Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server needs to make sure data types match when performing operations that involve multiple pieces of data.
When the data types do not match,...
2019-04-09
22 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #113–Personal Databases
This month we have a really interesting question for the T-SQL Tuesday invitation. Todd Kleinhans is the host and asks about personal databases. Do we use them for anything?...
2019-04-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #113 -A Database for the Great Outdoors
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday comes from Todd Kleinhans (blog | twitter) who wants to know what we’re doing with databases outside of work.
I’m curious- outside of work and...
2019-04-09
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Automatically Drop a Login/User (and Solve the Schema Owner Problem)
Ever tried to drop a user/login, only to find that they owned a schema? Here's how I do it...
2019-04-08
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SQL Server on Linux – how does it actually work?
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2019-04-19 (first published: 2019-04-08)
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Learning Jupyter Notebooks
I’m starting the process of learning how to use Jupyter Notebooks. Notebooks are documents that contain live code, commentary, results, pictures and more. Jupyter Notebooks are used for presentations,...
2019-04-08
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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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