2014 PASS Summit 2014 Board Q&A Notes
As has occurred in previous years at the PASS Summit the PASS Board of Directors held an open Q&A session...
2014-11-17
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Vital Statistics and Health Checks
This post has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with SQL Server. It does, however, relate to your career as a...
2014-11-26 (first published: 2014-11-17)
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Thoughts on Speakers and Topics for PASS Chapters
After wrapping up my part of SQLSaturday Orlando this year I’ve been thinking on what if anything we might do...
2014-11-17
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Use -eq in Powershell
I was writing a quick script to work with files and I only wanted to process one file for each...
2014-11-27 (first published: 2014-11-17)
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Quickly Add Telnet
Have you found yourself on a server or workstation that doesn't have telnet (typical in new builds and new Azure...
2014-11-17
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #109
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-11-17
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Exam Prep 70-463: Tables and Schemas
Well, the PASS Summit has come and gone and it was *awesome*. What a difference from my first Summit experience,...
2014-11-25 (first published: 2014-11-17)
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Using T-SQL to populate a Central Management Server
We have been using a CMS (Central Management Server) at my office for the last few years. Even beyond the...
2014-11-24 (first published: 2014-11-17)
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SQL Server Management Studio Reports
SQL Server Management Studio Reports
Whether you are an Application, SQL, BI Developer or a DBA. Knowing what is occurring within...
2014-11-21 (first published: 2014-11-17)
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Interview Questions on SQL Server Database Mirroring
1) What is default port of Database Mirroring Endpoint? Ans : 5022 2) Database Mirroring comes with which edition? Ans: SQL Server 2005 SP1. Or SQL Server 2005 RTM...
2014-11-17
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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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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