Omaha’s Next SQL Saturday is August 15
Omaha’s next SQL Saturday event is going to be held on August 15th at the University of Nebraska – Omaha’sMammel Hall...
2015-07-22
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PASS Performance Virtual Chapter’s 2015 Performance Palooza - TOMORROW! - 7/23
PASS HEADQUARTERS:
The PASS Performance Virtual Chapter’s 2015 Performance Palooza is
tomorrow starting at 10AM Central Time! This event will feature...
2015-07-22
1,227 reads
DBTA – Does the Looming Shortage in DBAs Spell Opportunity?
Originally appearing in my monthly column at Database Trends & Applications magazine. In my last column, available HERE, I described some of the findings contained in an intriguing new...
2015-07-22
26 reads
SQL Server Management Studio in a Multi-Site Cluster
Originally posted on Clustering For Mere Mortals:
If you set up a multisite cluster (nodes in different subnets), you will...
2015-07-22
772 reads
#ArgenisWithoutBorders the Sequel
Last year Kirsten Benzel(b/t) and Argenis Fernandez(b/t) did this amazing thing. They organized a campaign and raised over $13,000 for...
2015-07-22
691 reads
AdventureworksCI Step 4 Pushing to GitHub
This is part of a series on how to take the Adventureworks database and bring it in line with modern...
2015-07-29 (first published: 2015-07-22)
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AdventureworksCI Step 4 Pushing to GitHub
This is part of a series on how to take the Adventureworks database and bring it in line with modern...
2015-07-22
40 reads
AdventureworksCI Step 4 Pushing to GitHub
This is part of a series on how to take the Adventureworks database and bring it in line with modern...
2015-07-22
36 reads
AdventureworksCI Step 4 Pushing to GitHub
This is part of a series on how to take the Adventureworks database and bring it in line with modern standards. How do we put a legacy SQL Server...
2015-07-22
9 reads
Setting specific colors for PowerView charts
I was listening for Phil Collins' "True Colors" song in my car audio this morning and it reminded me about...
2015-07-21
5,395 reads
Blogs
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
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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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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