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If you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft has made some significant changes to the MCM program.  The changes make the certification more accessible to the masses. You can read more...

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Tis the Season

This month has been quite the month for change in my family.  The changes that we are experiencing did not end with the birth of our baby girl two...

2010-12-15

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Wait Stats resources

Today I was out and about looking for past roundups on TSQLTuesday.  While doing that, I came across a post from Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter) about wait stats.  The...

2010-12-13

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SSIS Job Execution

While working on a process to refresh the QA environment (data purge, reload data and reapply changes made over time as parts of release cycles), I ran into self-imposed...

2010-12-13

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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]
GO
What 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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