2011-09-09 (first published: 2007-11-19)
8,951 reads
Scripts
Script a Database Role
Script one or all roles in a database. Includes users, obect permissions and column permissions.
2011-09-08 (first published: 2008-01-08)
5,291 reads
Generate Scripts to Compare Tables
Generate the scripts that will allow you to compare tables pass/fail.
2011-09-07 (first published: 2007-12-28)
12,628 reads
2011-09-06 (first published: 2011-08-13)
1,992 reads
2011-09-05 (first published: 2007-01-25)
4,002 reads
Getting Age in Text or Date Difference in text format
This function returns the difference between the date in text format
2011-09-01 (first published: 2011-08-30)
1,065 reads
2011-08-31 (first published: 2011-08-24)
2,587 reads
List all tables without LOB columns
Lists all the tables in a database that do not contain any LOB columns(text, ntext, image, varchar (max), nvarchar (max), varbinary (max) and xml).
Useful when rebuilding indexes online.
2011-08-30 (first published: 2011-08-25)
769 reads
Find gaps in primary keys across multiple databases
Output table of gaps in a primary key across multiple databases on same, remote and/or linked servers.
2011-08-29 (first published: 2011-08-12)
970 reads
2011-08-24 (first published: 2011-08-12)
1,180 reads
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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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