thomasrushton

SQL Server DBA - part-time since 1995, full-time since 2010.

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Function to express numeric value in words

There is a requirement here to take a number (such as 124995) and express it in words.  We needed a function to do this, as it would be used in an existing document generation system.I have developed the enclosed two functions to do this.  Note that the function does not, currently, cater for negative numbers, […]

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2002-12-06

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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]
GO
What 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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