Objects dependency check up in SSMS
It’s a very good practice that you check the dependencies of the other objects when you change an object. Many developers just don’t do it, even when the change(s)...
2016-05-20
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SQLSaturday Pensacola Up Next For Me, Baton Rouge on the Horizon
Looking forward to the triumphant return of SQLSaturday Pensacola on June 4, thrilled that this start-of-summer tradition is back! This has been...
2016-05-20
371 reads
Bad Data Can Kill
Bad data can kill. Literally. I’m not talking about the impact of bad data on the bottom line of business,...
2016-05-31 (first published: 2016-05-20)
1,968 reads
Objects dependency check up in SSMS
It’s a very good practice that you check the dependencies of the other objects when you change an object. Many...
2016-05-20
206 reads
SSRS 2005 Bug - Percentage calculated column when Exporting to Excel
Nature of the Issue Faced :- Say you have 3 columns in a tablix/table on the report. There are 3 textboxes...
2016-05-30 (first published: 2016-05-20)
1,137 reads
Speaking about Power BI @ ITPROceed 2016
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be giving a session at this year’s ITPROceed. For those who don’t know this...
2016-05-19
494 reads
StorSimple Appliance – Part 1 Overview
Last time, I talked about cloud backup and the two different ways of doing it – directly and using StorSimple appliance...
2016-05-27 (first published: 2016-05-19)
1,548 reads
Changing a Computed Column–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-05-27 (first published: 2016-05-19)
2,222 reads
Broken Update With Join
Last month I wrote a post titled Broken Left Join which covered an easy to make mistake that I see...
2016-05-26 (first published: 2016-05-18)
1,805 reads
Migrate from on-prem SQL server to Azure VM IaaS
Hopefully you went through my presentations Should I move my database to the cloud?, Introducing Azure SQL Database and Implement SQL Server on an...
2016-05-26 (first published: 2016-05-18)
3,213 reads
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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