Is 18TB of Storage Enough?
Come to find out, nope, probably not. My good friend Jim Donahoe (blog|twitter)was very nice to tell me that he’s running 100TB of storage in his house across multiple Synology...
2021-07-16
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Is 18TB of Storage Enough?
Come to find out, nope, probably not. My good friend Jim Donahoe (blog|twitter)was very nice to tell me that he’s running 100TB of storage in his house across multiple Synology...
2021-07-16
16 reads
Is 18TB of Storage Enough?
Come to find out, nope, probably not. My good friend Jim Donahoe (blog|twitter)was very nice to tell me that he’s running 100TB of storage in his house across multiple Synology...
2021-07-16
13 reads
Quickly Determining Azure SQL Database Size
Recently I needed to determine how much storage space each database on a logical server was consuming. I was doing some DR testing and I need to give the...
2021-07-02
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Understanding NUMA in SQL Server VMs
Last Updated on January 8, 2022 by John Morehouse What really is NUMA and why do we as database administrators care? NUMA stands for “Non-uniform Memory Access” and allows...
2021-05-07
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Finding Foreign Key Child Records In SQL Server
Foreign keys help to ensure referential integrity between tables. In other words, parent records cannot be deleted if there are child records present. This is a great thing and...
2021-05-03 (first published: 2020-01-31)
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Changing MaxDop For Resumable Index Create Operations
I’ll admit it, sometimes I’m wrong. Recently I blogged about the usefulness of a newer feature that was enhanced with the release of SQL Server 2019. Resumable Indexes operations...
2021-04-23 (first published: 2020-01-17)
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Issues When Using Temporary Tables in Nested Stored Procedures
SQL Server offers a lot of flexibility when working with objects like stored procedures and temporary tables. One of the capabilities is to allow for stored procedures to call...
2021-04-06 (first published: 2021-03-26)
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Issues When Using Temporary Tables in Nested Stored Procedures
SQL Server offers a lot of flexibility when working with objects like stored procedures and temporary tables. One of the capabilities is to allow for stored procedures to call...
2021-03-26
23 reads
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!! Looking back at my Happy New Year! post from the start of 2020, I of course, didn’t realize the brute force of the global pandemic that...
2021-01-01
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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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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