Reflection on Talking at SQLSaturday Charlotte About Mental Health
On December 7, I did a session on mental illness and mental health problems being more common in IT than you think. Before the event the PASS WIT Virtual...
2019-12-11
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Reflection on Talking at SQLSaturday Charlotte About Mental Health
On December 7, I did a session on mental illness and mental health problems being more common in IT than you think. Before the event the PASS WIT Virtual...
2019-12-11
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Reflection on Talking at SQLSaturday Charlotte About Mental Health
On December 7, I did a session on mental illness and mental health problems being more common in IT than you think. Before the event the PASS WIT Virtual...
2019-12-26 (first published: 2019-12-11)
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A guide to acronyms, abbreviations, and other technical terms
Here’s a list of some technical terms, acronyms, and abbreviations you may have heard, and what they mean. Some of the definitions are taken from Wikipedia. This list is...
2019-12-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts Received This Year
Closing out 2019’s T-SQL Tuesday, Mala (blog | twitter) is asking us to reflect on the past twelve months:
This is a time for material gift giving, for many of...
2019-12-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #121 Gifts received
I am hosting 2019’s last T-SQL Tuesday of the year. I chose to ask people to write on gifts they had received – by way of community, relationships, or...
2019-12-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invites us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve been gifted with a lot of things this year personally...
2019-12-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invites us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve been gifted with a lot of things this year personally...
2019-12-10
9 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
At the end of 2019, Mala (b|t) invites us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve been gifted with a lot of things this year personally...
2019-12-23 (first published: 2019-12-10)
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T-SQL Tuesday Gifts (#121)
It’s that time of month. I missed last month while traveling, but I wanted to get back in the party. This month, Mala has invited us to talk about...
2019-12-10
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Blogs
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...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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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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