Improvements with SSMS 2016
The staple of every SQL Server developer's world, SSMS has been impossible to usurp for the majority of us. However,...
2016-07-19 (first published: 2016-07-11)
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Monday Morning SQL Break – July 11, 2016
It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. I spent the weekend with family...
2016-07-11
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Same Query, Different Servers, Different Performance. Now What?
Based on the number of times I see this question on forums, it must be occurring all the time. You...
2016-07-19 (first published: 2016-07-11)
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Tips to Fix Database Consistency Errors – Reported By DBCC CHECKDB
Overview
While working on SQL Server, sometimes users get stuck in annoying situations when database become inaccessible. After executing DBCC CHECKDB...
2016-07-11
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ETL Modularity
Imagine for a moment that you’ve built a software thing. In fact, we’ll call it Thing. You put a lot...
2016-07-18 (first published: 2016-07-11)
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Basic Statistics with SQL – Introduction
I was a student of statistics in school and college. I didn’t get to use much of anything I learned...
2016-07-10
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SQL Server – String_Escape function in SQL Server 2016
Hi friends, in SQL server 2016 another string function that introduced is String_Escape. This function can escape special characters within...
2016-07-10
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Join me for a free SQL Performance webcast on July 14th!
With less than we week away, I can say that I’m really excited to reach more people in the community...
2016-07-08
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Dallas, TX Fallen Officers Relief Fund
If you want to make a Donation to the Dallas, TX Fallen Officers Relief Fund, Please click this Link.
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2016-07-08
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Converged virtual architectures and SQL Server licensing
Hyper-converged compute architectures, meaning clusters of physical servers with self-contained storage configured for a traditional SAN-less solution, are growing in...
2016-07-08
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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...
Forums
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Empty Aggregate
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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