TSQL Tuesday #60: Something New Learned – What permissions does have?
What have I learned recently? Well as it happens I learned something rather interesting recently and was actually trying to...
2014-11-11
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TSQL Tuesday #60: Something New Learned – What permissions does
How To Use the Unpivot Transform in SSIS
Moving data from columns to rows can be a tricky task and accomplished in a variety of ways. That may be...
2014-11-17 (first published: 2014-11-11)
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PASS Summit 2014 – It’s not you, it’s me
After an exciting week at the PASS Summit, I’m back home with my family. This was my first ever PASS...
2014-11-11
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Consuming the Output of an SSIS Package in a Client Application
Typically, making the output of an SSIS Package available to a client application for further processing is achieved by outputting...
2014-11-11
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#tsql2sday #60 – Something New Learned – Problem Step Recorder
What is T-SQL Tuesday?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different blogger each month. This blog party...
2014-11-11
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Summit 2014
It’s hard to believe it’s over. It felt like a whirlwind while I was in Seattle for my 7th PASS...
2014-11-10
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How explicitly insert default value ? TIP #72
Suppose, sometimes you just need entry in the table with all the default values.
For example you have a Student...
2014-11-10
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#SQLPASS #Summit14 Day 2 Keynote Highlights !
This was one of those days I was waiting to happen. You might be wondering whats special? Yes, this day...
2014-11-10
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Let’s get started
Just back from PASS Summit 2014 and I am feeling inspired about stepping it up a notch and starting to...
2014-11-10
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #108
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-11-10
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
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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