Data Overload
When do you have too much data? What do you do if you aren't actually using all of it?
2016-08-09
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Steve Jones
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Dropping Masking from a Column–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-08-09 (first published: 2016-08-04)
2,086 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #81–Sharpening Skills
This is an interesting month for T-SQL Tuesday. The challenge is from Jason Brimhall to Sharpen Something, and learn something...
2016-08-09
1,144 reads
2016-08-09
1,027 reads
Making Complex Table Changes
The complexity of tables makes modifying them over time a challenge, especially as data sizes grow.
2016-08-08
74 reads
Security Shaming
This week Steve Jones looks at a new idea, rating the security of products publicly to try and shame vendors into more secure coding.
2016-08-08
89 reads
SQL Saturday and the Alamo
I’ll be traveling this week to SQL Saturday #550 in San Antonio. This is my first time traveling to this...
2016-08-08
443 reads
Failover
Too many failovers can cause problems, as can those that happen to often. Steve Jones says you need to consider whether you always need to failover in a sitaution.
2016-08-05
183 reads
Slimmer SQL Saturdays
I’ve had this idea for some time. It’s been bugging me, but I haven’t really been pressured to write, nor...
2016-08-05 (first published: 2016-07-26)
1,628 reads
Visual Studio Live!–Washington DC–Save with me
I’m going to be speaking this fall at Visual Studio Live, Washington D.C. edition on Oct 3-6. This is my...
2016-08-05
460 reads
Blogs
Automatic Index Compaction
By ReviewMyDB
Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
The Goldilocks problem – Materialized Views
I’m sure you’ve all heard the tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but...
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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How We Handled a Vendor Retry That Loaded Twice in Snowflake
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Cognitive Coverage
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Question of the Day
Getting the Average
I have this data in the dbo.Commission table in a SQL Server 2022 database.
salesperson commission Brian 12 Brian 16 Andy 7 Andy 14 Andy 21 Steve 20 Steve NULLAll the data is a varchar, and I decide to run this query to get the totals for each salesperson.
SELECT SalesPerson
, AVG(TRY_PARSE(Commission AS int)) AS TotalCommission
FROM commission
GROUP BY SalesPerson
GO
What average commission is calculated for Steve? See possible answers