Vote for me at SQLBits
SQL Bits XII is coming this July to Telford in the UK and voting is underway for sessions. I’ve submitted...
2014-04-09
822 reads
Webcast Follow-Up: Introduction to Clustered Indexes and Heaps
Last month, I presented a session for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s titled Introduction to Clustered Indexes and Heaps. I’d meant to...
2014-04-09
769 reads
Dedicated Administrator Connection
By David Postlethwaite
At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some...
2014-04-09
702 reads
Colorado SQL Events for April 2014
SQL Meetings are training events for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Please note that...
2014-04-08
408 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #53 – Work Hard, Play Hard, Joke Hard
It is April and April Fools has only just begun. Well, or so Matt Velic (blog | twitter) would have us believe. Matt decided that this month for TSQL...
2014-04-08
11 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #53 – Work Hard, Play Hard, Joke Hard
It is April and April Fools has only just begun. Well, or so Matt Velic (blog | twitter) would have us...
2014-04-08
977 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #53–Why So Serious?
It’s an interesting topic this month for T-SQL Tuesday #53. When I read Matt Velic’s invitation, I became intrigued. I...
2014-04-08
818 reads
Currys having apostrophe trouble
Before I start I just want to say that much of this post is mere speculation on my part and...
2014-04-08
631 reads
Question of the Week -08/04/2014
Suppose we need to find out the name of all the months in a given year (Year will be given...
2014-04-08
508 reads
Answer - Objective Question (How many Null values in an unique constraint can be inserted in SQL Server)
Question:- How many NULL value allowed in a column in which Unique constraint is defined in SQL Server?
Options:-
a) 1
b) 2
c) More...
2014-04-08
597 reads
Blogs
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...
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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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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