Fight Career Frustration With Learning
If you work in IT, the office becomes your second home. It’s where we make a living, and most of...
2014-03-11 (first published: 2014-02-28)
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Virtual Lab – Setting up a new VM
This is part of a series where I set up a virtual lab for testing and misc. work. The other...
2014-02-27
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PowerShell – SSRS Inventory – Automatic – Excel File – EMAIL
Inventory is a vital information,whether you’re a consultant or an in-house DBA, you need to have a reliable inventory of...
2014-02-27
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Data Architecture Virtual Group - Whiteboard Data Architecture Presentation
Thanks to all 130+ folks who joined, suffered my jokes and handwriting, and asked fantastic questions during my presentation to the...
2014-02-27
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Security #Datachat on Twitter Tonight
Tonight, at 9 PM Eastern, I’ll be participating in a #datachat on SQL Server security. It’s sponsored by Confio (now...
2014-02-27
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Introduction to Hadoop
Hadoop was created by the Apache foundation as an open-source software framework capable of processing large amounts of heterogeneous data-sets in...
2014-03-11 (first published: 2014-02-27)
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Spring in Florida
The first sign of spring in Florida is the leaves falling from the oak trees. Tons of leaves, leaves everywhere,...
2014-02-27
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Let’s Talk Query Tuning
I spend quite a bit of time writing about query tuning on this blog. I’ve written (re-written and am actively...
2014-02-27
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SQL Server sample databases
Here are some places on the web where you can find sample databases for SQL Server. It's nice to have...
2014-02-27
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Thinking with Data by Max Shron
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I recently enrolled myself in the O’Reilly Blogger Review program, which basically allows me to get one O’Reilly eBook for...
2014-02-27
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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...
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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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