Fun with PowerShell: I made a game
So we got to playing around with PowerShell last week – one son is making a game hack, and the other...
2018-11-19
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Query Store and Plan Cache Plans Compared
Query Store plans and the plans in cache are identical, right? There won’t be differences because the plan that is...
2018-12-03 (first published: 2018-11-19)
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SQL Live Conference – December 2-7 in Orlando
I am proud to contribute to this year’s Live360 conference, to be held in Orlando Florida at the Royal Pacific...
2018-11-19
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Running SQL Server with Docker on the Mac
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2018-12-03 (first published: 2018-11-19)
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Dealing with multiple AD accounts
To help promote the seperation of duties one of the things my company has done is to divide our permissions...
2018-11-29 (first published: 2018-11-19)
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What is the SQL Server Trustworthy database property?
I ran across an interesting property set in a SQL Server database for a customer, the property is called “Trustworthy”. ...
2018-11-29 (first published: 2018-11-19)
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2018-11-19
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2018-11-19
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T-SQL Tuesday 108 – A poetic summary
This is November and T-SQL Tuesday time,
I hope you are ready to read the summary – I am the host and...
2018-11-19
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PASS Summit 2018 - Photos
My album of people and events at Summit 2018. Somehow a number of photo opportunities were missed!
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2018-11-19
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How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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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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