I’m a Pain
Or maybe I’m misreading that I’m supposed to be helping to alleviate pain. Either way, next Thursday, June 17, I’ll be...
2010-06-10
556 reads
The Scary DBA
PASS 2010 Submissions
Since all the cool kids seem to be posting the sessions that they submitted to the PASS Summit, nerd that...
2010-06-09
814 reads
Buy vs. Build
It’s the classic question faced by everyone in Information Services. I know how to do this and I could build...
2010-05-28
1,610 reads
Slick New Software
I’m lazy. And frankly, I’m not ashamed to admit it. When a software comes along that can do the work...
2010-05-24
1,291 reads
Recompiles and Constant Learning
When faced with a procedure that looks like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.TestProc (@TestValue INT)
AS
BEGIN
IF @TestValue = 1
BEGIN
SELECT *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
JOIN Sales.SalesOrderDetail...
2010-05-11
777 reads
PASS Summit, Kilt Wednesday
Last year at the PASS Summit we held a silly little event called Kilt Wednesday. Only three people took part,...
2010-04-27
1,406 reads
PASS Summit Content Survey Results
The results of a survey conducted by the PASS organization have been posted (thanks to the Board for all their...
2010-04-22
638 reads
SQL Server Standard: Volume 7, Issue 3
FINALLY!
It’s not like Don Gabor had the article done in January or anything…oh wait. He did have the article done...
2010-04-21
700 reads
SQL Saturday #39, New York, New York
A town so big they named it twice.
If you’re not excited about SQL Saturday in NYC this weekend… why not?...
2010-04-20
521 reads
Powershell Script for Verifying Space
First let me say, I know my Powershell skills are sub-par. I’m working on it. Slowly but surely. That said,...
2010-04-19
1,211 reads
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...
Forums
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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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