Where have all the Orphans gone?
Do your database users appear to be having an out of body experience? Have they lost all ties to their...
2012-10-03
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Where have all the Orphans gone?
Do your database users appear to be having an out of body experience? Have they lost all ties to their login? Does it feel like maybe what this baby...
2012-10-03
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September Events
Wow, I can’t believe it is already September of 2012. Labor day has come and gone, school is in session...
2012-09-04
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September Events
Wow, I can’t believe it is already September of 2012. Labor day has come and gone, school is in session and the SQL Community is still busy. With that,...
2012-09-04
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August 2012 S3OLV Meeting
Well well well. It has certainly been a long time between announcements on the blog about meetings for the Las...
2012-07-30
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August 2012 S3OLV Meeting
Well well well. It has certainly been a long time between announcements on the blog about meetings for the Las Vegas SQL Server Users Group. We have had to...
2012-07-30
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Where in the World is…
You may or may not have noticed that over the past several months I have been somewhat absent from my...
2012-07-18
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Where in the World is…
You may or may not have noticed that over the past several months I have been somewhat absent from my blog. Very few articles if any have been produced....
2012-07-18
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A Trio of EachDB
When administering a larger database environment, sometimes one needs to perform repetitive tasks. Performing repetitive tasks becomes more and more...
2012-07-17
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A Trio of EachDB
When administering a larger database environment, sometimes one needs to perform repetitive tasks. Performing repetitive tasks becomes more and more painful (maybe even demoralizing) with the larger the number...
2012-07-17
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
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“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...
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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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