TSQL-Tuesday #109 – Influence Somebody
Influence Somebody Ahh, December. What a wonderful time. Snow all around (many along the eastern seaboard of the United States were hit Sunday by a snowstorm… I had 7?...
2018-12-12
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TSQL-Tuesday #109 – Influence Somebody
Influence Somebody
Ahh, December. What a wonderful time. Snow all around (many along the eastern seaboard of the United States were...
2018-12-12
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T-SQL Tuesday 109: To influence and to be influenced
The last T-SQL Tuesday of this year is hosted by Jason Brimhall – one of my long-time friends in the SQL...
2018-12-12
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SQL Census–From the Redgate Foundry
The Foundry at Redgate Software is our version of Microsoft Research. Kind of. We tackle some projects that are interesting...
2018-12-11
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To Influence or Be Influenced?
Getting feedback from others is that little check that is needed to help progress and move in the right direction. When allowing time and opportunity for feedback from others,...
2018-12-11
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To Influence or Be Influenced?
How have you impacted somebody in the community?
Well, have I come up with a doozy of a topic for this...
2018-12-11
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Get Rid of those unused indexes!
Indexes in relational databases are very helpful and increase the speed to access data. However maintaining indexes is just as...
2018-12-11
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Visualizing Nested Loops Joins And Understanding Their Implications
This post is the first in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 2 – merge...
2018-12-11
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Visualizing Nested Loops Joins And Understanding Their Implications
This post is the first in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 2 - merge joins, and part 3 - hash match joins).
Watch...
2018-12-11
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Visualizing Nested Loops Joins And Understanding Their Implications
This post is the first in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 2 - merge joins, and part 3 - hash match joins).
Watch...
2018-12-11
25 reads
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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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