March 2011 S3OLV Meeting Recap
The Las Vegas SQL Server Users Group met on March 10, 2011. The meeting was both virtual and in-person. Good...
2011-03-15
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March 2011 S3OLV Meeting Recap
The Las Vegas SQL Server Users Group met on March 10, 2011. The meeting was both virtual and in-person. Good news – we had just about as many person...
2011-03-15
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DB Benchmarking
As database professionals, we have a need to benchmark performance of the database, processes, and essentially overall performance. When benchmarking,...
2011-03-14
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DB Benchmarking
As database professionals, we have a need to benchmark performance of the database, processes, and essentially overall performance. When benchmarking, it is preferable to get a baseline and then...
2011-03-14
12 reads
SQL Bitwise Operations
How many DB professionals have never had to deal with bitwise operations in SQL Server? Who has never had a...
2011-03-10
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SQL Bitwise Operations
How many DB professionals have never had to deal with bitwise operations in SQL Server? Who has never had a single value in the database represent more than one...
2011-03-10
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Database Maintenance
I often see a request for some scripts to help with database maintenance. Sometimes those questions come in the form...
2011-03-09
1,045 reads
Database Maintenance
I often see a request for some scripts to help with database maintenance. Sometimes those questions come in the form of recommendation requests for maintenance plans. As many already...
2011-03-09
10 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #016: Aggregates and Statistics
Data Size Collection and Analysis
By now you should be well acquainted with this phenomenon we call TSQL Tuesday. This party...
2011-03-08
682 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #016: Aggregates and Statistics
For my data analysis and trending, I wanted to find a simple distribution across quartiles.
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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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