TSQL Tuesday #96: Folks Who Have Made a Difference
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Ewald Cress (blog | twitter) and is all about “folks who have made a difference” in our careers.
Thank you, Ewald! This is...
2017-11-14
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Cláudio Silva
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TSQL Tuesday 96: Folks Who Have Made a Difference
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Ewald Cress (blog | twitter) and is all about “folks who have made a difference” in our careers.
Thank you, Ewald! This is...
2017-11-14
10 reads
DELETE data on SQL Server HEAP table – Did you know…
Before I complete my question let me provide context. I've received an alert saying that a specific database could not...
2017-10-04 (first published: 2017-09-26)
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DELETE data on SQL Server HEAP table - Did you know...
Before I complete my question let me provide context.
I’ve received an alert saying that a specific database could not allocate a new page (disk was full)
The message that you...
2017-09-26
12 reads
PowerShell Modules Central - Share with community - What PowerShell modules are you using?
Like the blog post title states this is all about sharing with others! My idea is to share with the community which PowerShell modules you are using.
PowerShellModulesCentral is a...
2017-09-19
6 reads
Generate Markdown Table of Contents based on files within a folder with PowerShell
Last week I was talking with Constantine Kokkinos (b | t) about generating a Table Of Contents (TOC) for a GitHub repository.
He wrote a cool blog post - Generating...
2017-09-18
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[PowerShell] From 20 minutes to 20 seconds - Change domain user password on multiple domains without login into each one
I’m working on a environment where I have to deal with multiple domains. The user’s password needs to be updated each 40/45 days (it depends on the domain).
Because I...
2017-09-14
10 reads
Someone is not following the best practices – dbatools and Pester don’t lie!
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by my good friend Rob Sewell (b | t) and we will "Let’s...
2017-09-12
721 reads
“Invalid class [0x80041010]” error when trying to access SQLServer’s WMI classes
I was using open source PowerShell module dbatools (GitHub repository) to get the list of SQL Server services I have...
2017-09-07
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'Invalid class [0x80041010]' error when trying to access SQLServer's WMI classes
I was using open source PowerShell module dbatools (GitHub repository) to get the list of SQL Server services I have on a bunch of hosts so I could confirm...
2017-09-07
56 reads
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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