SSRS SharePoint Integrated Mode – Report Server URL
This is a short, but hopefully sweet post for someone, whom, like me, might have had to end up spending...
2014-12-03
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T-SQL Tricks – Customizing SSMS Templates with Parameters
I wrote briefly about templates in Management Studio (SSMS), and showed the default templates that come with SQL Server. I...
2014-12-11 (first published: 2014-12-03)
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On Perspective
Perspective can make or break a career. Maintaining a proper perspective is very often the differentiating factor between a good...
2014-12-10 (first published: 2014-12-03)
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INSERT INTO SELECT vs SELECT INTO
INSERT INTO SELECT and SELECT INTO may be very similar commands but they have some important differences. Every now and...
2014-12-03
17,079 reads
Create your own SQL Tools with PowerShell and Windows Forms
Steve:
Check out a new blogger who is sharing secrets of the DBA world. In his first post, James shows us...
2014-12-09 (first published: 2014-12-03)
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 45 (“Multi-Dimensional Clustering”)
Continuation from the previous 44 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
I have blogged a couple times (part 29 – “Data Loading for Better...
2014-12-02
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Preparing a Technical Session Part 1: Picking a Topic
So you’ve decided or perhaps were told to do a technical presentation. If this is something that’s new for you...
2014-12-12 (first published: 2014-12-02)
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Preparing a Technical Session Part 1: Picking a Topic
So you’ve decided or perhaps were told to do a technical presentation. If this is something that’s new for you...
2014-12-02
828 reads
Review: Ghost of My Father
I finished reading Ghost of My Father by Scott Berkun over the holiday weekend. It’s an intense read about the...
2014-12-02
555 reads
More Notes From The PASSWatch Project And Thoughts on Transparency
It’s been just over two months since I wrote the first post for PASSWatch. I’m trying hard to keep PASSWatch...
2014-12-02
554 reads
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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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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