Forums for Atadore's PromptSQL
Atadore has opened up forums for support and feature requests of its
PromptSQL tool. You can find them on the PromptSQL...
2006-01-26
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The Greatest Trick
In reading Gianpaolo Carraro's blog I came across this entry: The architect greatest trick?!
In it he's talking about having seen...
2006-01-26
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Pro SSIS is Here!
My box of books arrived today! For me, a first-time author (actually co-author), this is very surreal. I remember it was...
2006-01-25
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Slightly Connected
Sometimes those connection problems come in the most interesting ways.
I took a few minutes over lunch today to try...
2006-01-24
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Cast vs Convert
Sometimes you must "convert" a column or variable from one data type to another. For example, if you want to...
2006-01-23
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Photos
I had a couple people ask about the move after my editorial, but my wife doesn't like the address to...
2006-01-20
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SSC Moving
As if it weren't enough that I was moving my home, the SSC site is also moving. I'll drop some...
2006-01-18
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PromptSQL Review
I had the opportunity recently to take a look at PromptSQL and offer a
review on it. That review hit SSC.com's...
2006-01-18
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A Funny Thing Happened at Starbucks
I decided to commit to the book, so I'm waiting on some information and a contact from my co-author and...
2006-01-12
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Awesome Interview on Windows Vista Kernel Architecture
This actually premiered on Channel 9 right before Christmas. It is an
interview with Rob Short, a Microsoft VP in charge...
2006-01-07
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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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