Locate specific columns used in procs
SP to find object and line number that references column(s) of interest.
2008-01-24 (first published: 2007-11-21)
1,045 reads
Scripts
Check Availability Window - SQL2k
This script allows you to check the several availability windows for the current day.
2008-01-18 (first published: 2007-10-29)
1,123 reads
Making a table out of a list
Sometimes you are given a list of values in a stored procedure that you want to use in an "IN" clause. This is a common in Reporting Services multi value parameters.
2008-01-15 (first published: 2007-11-15)
1,021 reads
2008-01-14
1,000 reads
Generating number sequences
Two queries below show one of many ways how You can generate a sequence of numbers.
2008-01-14
962 reads
Check Availability Window - SQL2k5
This script allows you to check the several availability windows for the current day.
2008-01-11 (first published: 2007-10-29)
1,428 reads
SMS Script
This script will modify INI file on destops through SMS push to point server connection from A to B.
2008-01-09 (first published: 2007-10-29)
1,331 reads
2008-01-04 (first published: 2007-10-27)
928 reads
Automatically generate SUID procs for any table
This proc generates SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE procs for any given table.
2008-01-02 (first published: 2007-11-08)
1,445 reads
Split by Row & Field delimitters
Like my tdard split but this will take a string and split it by 2 delimiters
2007-12-28 (first published: 2007-11-13)
1,603 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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