SQL Overview VII - SSRS Reports and Subscriptions
In the next installment of his series on the SQL Overview toolkit, David Bird looks at the information collected about SSRS.
2014-11-17
5,367 reads
David Bird
SQL Overview V - Monitoring Long Running Jobs
Continuing with his series on monitoring your SQL Servers, David Bird now looks a a way to fin those long running, active jobs.
2011-07-29 (first published: 2010-03-24)
17,988 reads
SQL Overview VI - Monitoring Process Locks
In the sixth part of his series on monitoring your SQL Server, David Bird looks at process locks.
2011-07-22 (first published: 2010-03-31)
15,982 reads
SQL Overview SSIS Package III - Full Package
Continuing on with his series on reporting for your SQL Server, David Bird brings together the series with the full package used for building the report.s
2011-07-15 (first published: 2008-01-22)
21,685 reads
SQL Overview SSIS Package II - Retrieving SQL Error Log
In Part II of his series on monitoring SQL Servers, David Bird takes a look at importing data from your error logs.
2011-07-08 (first published: 2008-01-14)
18,280 reads
SQL Overview Part 1
Monitoring your SQL Server instances and figuring out what's going on is important to keep an eye on your environment. David Bird brings us a new series that looks at how you might start setting this up with Integration Services.
2011-07-01 (first published: 2008-01-07)
27,884 reads
Free Tools for the SQL Server DBA Part 2
After a very popular first article on tools for the DBA, David Bird is back with a list of some utilities you might find very handy for working with SQL Server.
2010-01-22 (first published: 2008-12-04)
100,954 reads
SQL Overview IV - DBA's Morning Review
Continuing on with his very popular series on monitoring your servers, David Bird takes a look at how you manage checking on multiple servers.
2008-06-02
13,475 reads
Free Tools for the SQL Server DBA
Everyone has a set of handy utilities and tools that they use with their SQL Server, but sometimes convincing an employer to purchase tools is hard. Longtime DBA David Bird brings us a list of the tools he likes to use and are FREE.
2008-04-10 (first published: 2007-05-24)
65,661 reads
2008-03-17
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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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