MySQL TinyInt treated as Boolean
When working with a MySQL database as a source you may experience some unexpected results in your data extracts. Most of the...
2015-04-29
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Excel in T-SQL Part 1 – HARMEAN, GEOMEAN and FREQUENCY
Today’s blog will be the first in a multi-part series on replicating Excel functions in T-SQL, starting with HARMEAN, GEOMEAN...
2015-04-29
2,319 reads
Creating a Self-Contained Multi-Subnet Test Environment, Part II – Adding a Domain Controller
This is the second in a series of articles about creating a simulated environment for testing systems that cross subnets.
Part...
2015-04-29
2,137 reads
Using SSIS Lookup Transformation in ETL Packages
Lookup is one of many transformations available in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Its purpose is to perform a JOIN of...
2015-04-29
17,880 reads
Are You Backing Everything Up?
We hear the common refrain among DBAs all the time. Back up your data! Test your restores! If you can’t restore the backup, it’s worthless. And yes, absolutely, you...
2015-04-29
17 reads
Restoring a database that doesn't exist
When restoring a database that doesn't exist, say for instance when a client sends a database to you, you can't...
2015-04-28
2,357 reads
Restoring a database that doesn’t exist
When restoring a database that doesn’t exist, say for instance when a client sends a database to you, you can’t...
2015-04-28
278 reads
A Tale of SQL Server Disk Space Trials and Tribulations
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System: 5.5GB of RAM, Windows 2008 R2, vmware, 4 cores, SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition. The database currently has the...
2015-05-05 (first published: 2015-04-28)
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Using PowerShell to Export SQL Data to CSV. How well does it perform?
So here we are at week 4 of the #SQLNewBlogger challenge. Earlier in the week I responded to the following...
2015-05-07 (first published: 2015-04-28)
33,538 reads
Windows Temporary Profile
Amongst IT related problems one that can fill this most ardent optimist with dread is when logging into your pc...
2015-04-28
811 reads
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...
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By Steve Jones
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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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