How I Got my Start at Pragmatic Works
October 4th of this month was my seven year anniversary as an employee of Pragmatic Works. Things have changed a...
2015-10-06
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Today at 12pm Central: #MinionEnterprise Talk – Backup Management!
Register here. In our monthly series about Minion Enterprise – the new SQL Server management solution – Sean and Jen will show you how...
2015-10-06
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New Article: Loading Fixed Width Files to Staging Tables
My article “SSIS Design Pattern – Staging Fixed Width Flat Files” is published on SQLServerCentral.com. In the article, I provide a...
2015-10-06
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Extended Event Management Power Tools
PowerShell can pack a pretty big punch when dealing with Extended Events. Using PowerShell as one of your Extended Events Management Tools, there could be a bit of a...
2015-10-06
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Extended Event Management Power Tools
So far in this series I have introduced a couple of tools that are suitable for helping with the management...
2015-10-06
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Load Testing Your Storage Subsystem with Diskspd – Part III
In our final post in our “Load Testing Your Storage Subsystem with Diskspd” series, we’re going to look at output from Diskspd and run some tests and interpret results....
2015-10-06
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The Future Virtualization of the Workforce - Telecommuting
Welcome to the 21st century! 20th
century habits die hard! What am I
talking about today? I’m talking about the virtuous virtue...
2015-10-06
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Overview of Published Articles – 2015Q3
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the third quarter of 2015.
Retrieve file sizes from the file system...
2015-10-06
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Table valued parameters (TVP)
Table values parameters
How we can pass multiple rows in stored procedure or function as a parameter?
Table-valued parameters are a new...
2015-10-06
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Handling decimal and non numeric types using Case statement
Hi Guys
Just encountered a scenario where I needed to handle numeric and non numeric types using Case statement. Here is the...
2015-10-14 (first published: 2015-10-06)
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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...
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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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