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Two Thousand Five Hundred Sixty. Seems like such a random and unassuming number, however, I can say this was the...
2012-10-23
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Kyle Neier
Vacation and SQLSat149
When I was considering submitting some sessions to SQL Saturday 149 in Minnesota I thought I would have a difficult...
2012-09-22
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T-SQL: Performance of SQL Agent Duration Calculations
In my article published yesterday on using Powershell for SQL Durations (Working with SQL Agent Durations), I proposed using a...
2012-08-24
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Nacho Mama’s Training Class
That is what I wanted to name the new training series that we developed at my employer, Perpetual Technologies (PTI.net)....
2012-08-09
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SQL Saturday 122: T-SQL 2012 presentation
This last weekend, I had the pleasure of being invited down to Louisville, KY to speak at SQL Saturday #122....
2012-07-24
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Speaking at SQL Saturday 122 - Louisville
It has been a great couple of months for both me and for Perpetual Technologies (my employer). PTI has been...
2012-07-09
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Powershell Add-Member: IsLogBackupAllowed ?
In my previous post, I shared some of the issues I had when attempting to get Add-Member to work with...
2012-07-05
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Powershell, SMO, and Add-Member - Not Always BFF
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with SMO to implement some maintenance routines across my clients. Because of...
2012-07-04 (first published: 2012-06-28)
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Enumerating Index Fragmentation with Powershell and SMO
I wish I could say that this was a simple task, but as I dove into SMO and some of...
2012-06-19
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Powershell Add-Type – Where’s That Assembly!
I’ve been working a lot lately with SMO and the differences between the various versions between SQL 2005, 2008, and...
2012-06-06
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Blogs
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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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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