I Don't Have a Black Eye
Though it kind of looks like that. Here's the first video podcast.
Halo 3
Actually it's probably the 20th, but it's close...
2007-09-29
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Monitoring and Alerting
I responded in an interesting thread this morning where someone was looking for advice on what to monitor on their...
2007-09-28
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Points or Posts
It's an interesting question that we had come up, and honestly I'm not completely sure what I want. I'll describe...
2007-09-27
1,426 reads
I Am Not In Charge
That is for sure.
We had a development meeting today with my publishing team (meaning I'm on the team, not leading...
2007-09-26
1,480 reads
DTS vs Linked Server
We are trying to move to version 2 of our accounting data warehouse (more likely called a datamart), but it...
2007-09-25
1,607 reads
Development at High Speed
As with any project, despite being fairly pleased with the final product, there were bugs. In fact, quite a few...
2007-09-25
1,396 reads
Flawed URL Validation and Not Eating Your Own Dog Food
MS includes a bunch of reasonably nice validation controls in VS 2005 and one of them includes the ability to...
2007-09-25
1,405 reads
Writing in my sleep
When I first got into IT full time 10 years ago, I noticed that my mind was constantly solving programming...
2007-09-25
1,290 reads
Building a Local User Group
I've had a couple people ask me about ideas for growing (as opposed to starting) a SQL user group. While...
2007-09-24
1,352 reads
PASS and new SSC design
I'm rarely a "needy" guy, but I have to admit that I'm feeling a little left out. Due to project...
2007-09-23
1,457 reads
Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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...
Forums
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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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