On Software and OS Lifecycle Management
An Important Rule:
If you’re trying to convince someone to your viewpoint, insulting them generally doesn’t work. If it does anything,...
2015-04-30 (first published: 2015-04-17)
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Good things should be appreciated–SQL sentry Plan Explorer TIP #95
Although , It is out of box but I would like to share here. I am very choosy in food. When...
2015-04-16
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Error Creating Remote Distributor When Creating a Local Distributor
Recently, I was working on a Peer-to-peer replication automation project. When I switched from my local test servers to some...
2015-04-16
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April Blogger Challenge 3 – Filtered Indexes
The April Blogger Challenge is from Ed Leighton-Dick and aimed at new bloggers, but anyone is welcome. I’m trying to...
2015-05-01 (first published: 2015-04-16)
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SQL Server 2014 SP1 released, and revoked
Just a brief note today to point to an article by Time Ford on SQLMag.com announcing that SQL Server 2014 SP1 has...
2015-04-16
634 reads
Azure SQL Database v12 and SQL Magazine
I spend many of my evenings researching and writing. Sometimes it’s writing new books. Sometimes it’s fixing and rewriting old...
2015-04-16
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Exam Prep 70-463: Master Data Services Models
This post is part of a series on this blog that will help me, and hopefully you, pass exam 70-463: Implementing...
2015-04-28 (first published: 2015-04-16)
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2015 Program Committee
Last year, I was very much honored to be selected to deliver a pre-con with my friend brother Chris Shaw (B|T). I...
2015-04-16
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2015-04-16
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Adding, altering or removing multiple columns from a table
I was recently asked to do some fairly heavy modifications to a table. It involved adding 6 new columns, removing...
2015-04-16
1,655 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...
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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Let's Talk Certifications
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The Hidden Security Risks of Role Combination in SSAS Tabular
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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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