A Script A Day - Day 7 - Memory Queries
Today's script is a collection of a few memory queries I've collected from various sources over the years. These queries are by no...
2012-02-07
2,342 reads
SQL Server 365
A Script A Day - Day 6 - Drop and Create Database Snapshots
Today's Script will drop all database snapshots and create a database snapshot for all online read writeable user databases. I...
2012-02-06
3,904 reads
A Script A Day - Day 5 - Database Owner Permissions
Today's script will list all principals with membership in the db_owner fixed database role.
/* ----------------------------------------------------------------- Database Owner Permissions ----------------------------------------------------------------- For more SQL resources, check...
2012-02-05
1,138 reads
A Script A Day - Day 4 - Estimated Time Left
Today's script allows you to keep track of how long left a statement has before it completes. I find this useful...
2012-02-04
492 reads
A Script A Day - Day 3 - Live Change Data Edit Template
Today's script is a template I use for the occasions when a data edit is required to be run against...
2012-02-03
572 reads
A Script A Day - Day 2 - Database Mail Troubleshooting
Today's script is a collection of simple queries I have saved for a time when I need to troubleshoot database...
2012-02-02
492 reads
A Script A Day - Day 1 - Database File To Volume Mapping
Today is the 1st February 2012 and as promised here is the first of script in my "A Script A Day"...
2012-02-01
585 reads
Database 101
I had an interesting phone call this morning from our professional services team. They are carrying out what I can...
2012-01-26
619 reads
Venting Frustration
We as DBA’s face an ever growing list of things to do and services to support. We work in high...
2012-01-25
600 reads
A Script a Day
In February I will be starting a series of Blog Posts I'm calling a "A Script a Day". Each day...
2012-01-24
625 reads
Blogs
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“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...
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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