What is your why? – T-SQL Tuesday #111
In this T-SQL Tuesday post, I answer Andy Leonards question of "Why do you do what you do"? It comes down to I automate what I can so that...
2019-02-12
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What is your why? – T-SQL Tuesday #111
In this T-SQL Tuesday post, I answer Andy Leonards question of "Why do you do what you do"? It comes down to I automate what I can so that...
2019-02-12
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What is your why? – T-SQL Tuesday #111
Would you believe that it is already the second Tuesday in February? Wow, this month is sure going fast. But...
2019-02-12
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Passion, Challenges, and SQL
One of my biggest reasons why I do what I do, boils down to the challenges that I frequently get to encounter. There is a wild satisfaction to working...
2019-02-12
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Passion, Challenges, and SQL
TSQL Tuesday
The second Tuesday of the month comes to us a little early this month. That means it is time...
2019-02-12
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What is my why?–T-SQL Tuesday #111
This is an interesting question from Andy Leonard for T-SQL Tuesday: What Is Your “Why”? He is this month’s host...
2019-03-01 (first published: 2019-02-12)
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There’s got to be a better way
For T-SQL Tuesday #111, Andy Leonard asks “What is your why? Why do you do what you do?”
Like Andy, I...
2019-02-12
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Why I Do What I Do #tsql2sday
I didn’t originally want to go back into IT after 15 years in the career field. It was 1999 and...
2019-02-12
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“SSPI handshake failed” \ “The login is from an untrusted domain” errors
I’ve recently encountered an issue that was difficult to resolve and I didn’t find the particular cause that was troubling...
2019-02-28 (first published: 2019-02-12)
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Friend of Redgate 2019
The crew at Redgate has deemed me worthy enough to be in their Friend of Redgate program for another year....
2019-02-12
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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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