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2014-12-25 (first published: 2014-12-16)
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WordPress, Project NAMI, and Azure
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2014-12-24 (first published: 2014-12-16)
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ROW_NUMBER SQL Server
Row_Number SQL Server
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2014-12-22 (first published: 2014-12-16)
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SQL Server Developer Tips that Can Save Your XXX
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RegEx Those Dates
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2014-12-25 (first published: 2014-12-15)
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #113
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2014-12-15
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Why You Should Benchmark Your Storage
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2014-12-15
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Create a clustered index and a primary key on existing tables
It’s the simple things in life that can trip people up. I find that creating primary keys and clustered indexes...
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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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