5 Things Series – APPLY Operator
In this series I’m going to detail the 5 T-SQL Commands that review in my 5 T-SQL Commands I’ve been...
2014-02-12
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Winner – Conference Pass to #SQLServerLive in Las Vegas
This is a quick post to announce the winner of my blog giveaway for a free conference pass to SQL Server Live! in Las Vegas. Those rather nice folks at SQL Server Live are also offering...
2014-02-12
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Winner – Conference Pass to #SQLServerLive in Las Vegas
This is a quick post to announce the winner of my blog giveaway for a free conference pass to SQL Server Live! in Las Vegas.
Those...
2014-02-12
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Presenting on Top SQL Server Vulnerabilities
On February 19th, 2014, I’ll be giving a webinar from 3-4 PM Eastern on the Top SQL Server Vulnerabilities. You...
2014-02-18 (first published: 2014-02-12)
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If You’re Not Helping People Develop, You’re Not Management Material #management
Facilitating employee learning should be a non-negotiable competency. Employee development is one of the most critically important jobs any manager...
2014-02-12
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If You’ve Just Taken Over a Team, Quickly Let Underperformers Go
Your job is not to maintain the status quo. When you take over a team, you need to evalute why...
2014-02-12
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On Accountability
“Sometimes you’ll make a mistake,” a chief executive says. “Life happens. But let’s not do it again. One of our...
2014-02-12
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The Best “Management Lessons” Story You’ll Ever Read
Such as: Often, the best candidate for a given job isn’t the person who’s most skilled at fulfilling its primary...
2014-02-12
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Make Your Storage Administrator Your Best Friend
That guy or gal over there going on and on about spindles and IOPS – that’s your SAN admin. For the...
2014-02-17 (first published: 2014-02-12)
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MDX+SSAS #38–CALL ASSP.DMV() to document cubes in SSAS 2005
While you are writing and testing MDX queries in Microsoft SQL Server management Studio (SSMS), how many times you find...
2014-02-12
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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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