Profiling Entity Framework 6 Queries
Entity Framework 6 introduced some API hooks that you can use to monitor log queries that Entity Framework is generating...
2015-01-25
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Script for compressing a database
When you have to compress a database you’d better first see the consideration for the compression. This is a script that I use for compressing databases. Of course you...
2015-01-24
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Script for compressing a database
When you have to compress a database you’d better first see the consideration for the compression. This is a script that I use for compressing databases. Of course you...
2015-01-24
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Script for compressing a database
When you have to compress a database you’d better first see the consideration for the compression.
This is a script that...
2015-01-24
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SQL Server - Convert() function
Convert () function in SQL Server to convert an expression from one data type to another data type
Syntax for CONVERT function
CONVERT ( data_type [ ( length ) ] , expression...
2015-01-24
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Compress that database
When you have to compress a database you'd better first see the considerationfor the compression.This is a script that I...
2015-01-24
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Video: A Better Way to Reindex
Sean presented A BETTER WAY TO REINDEX for the Performance Virtual Chapter. Here are links to the video, and to...
2015-01-23
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I’m A Friend Of Red Gate For 2015
I was excited to learn this week that I’ve been chosen as a participant in the Friends of Red Gate...
2015-01-23
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Friday Followup For January 23, 2015
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2015-01-23
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F# Type Inference
I’m just starting to look at functional languages from an Object Oriented background. One of the first things I thought...
2015-01-23
43 reads
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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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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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