Reblog: August 22 to August 28
Photo credit – Husso
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just...
2014-08-29
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Friday Followup For August 29, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-08-29
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4 Attitudes I Wish I Had Earlier as a DBA
I was tagged by Mike Walsh (blog | twitter) in his post 4 Attitudes I Wish I Had Earlier As a...
2014-09-05 (first published: 2014-08-28)
8,132 reads
I Didn’t Hyperventilate!
I gave what is officially my second presentation this week. I presented at the Triad SQL BI (Twitter | PASS) user...
2014-08-28
1,305 reads
I did my part – Helping others
Let’s raise some money, people.
TL;DR Donate to Doctors Without Borders, the Argenis Without Borders campaign.
What started out as a joke...
2014-09-02 (first published: 2014-08-28)
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Dear IT Guy, Why do you hesitate to attend my meetings?
I was attending Microsoft’s on-boarding training last week and one of the managers there mentioned that a lot of IT...
2014-08-28
877 reads
The Art of Performance Tuning
Performance tuning often gets called an art as people feel that a certain knack or innate talent comes into play....
2014-09-04 (first published: 2014-08-28)
8,790 reads
What I Wish I Had Known Sooner…as a DBA
Yesterday I took a minute and to review some posts by some Data Professionals and in doing so I came...
2014-08-28
1,121 reads
Four things I wish I’d known back then
In the blogging meme of the day, I was tagged by my friend Tim Costello to share four things I...
2014-09-05 (first published: 2014-08-28)
8,207 reads
My SQLBits Session Recordings
Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting two of my favorite sessions at the SQLBits conference in Telford, UK.
A few days...
2014-08-28
1,049 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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