A New Word: Alazia
alazia– n. the fear that you’re no longer able to change.. I don’t have alazia. I’m always thinking I change, sometimes even when I don’t want to. Certainly my...
2024-04-05
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Blog Posts
Apr 9 Webinar: Accelerating Success: De-risking and Streamlining Releases with Flyway Enterprise
UPDATE: This moved to Apr 9 Join me Tuesday, Apr 9 for a webinar, 10:00am CDT. You can register here and then come watch live with questions or get...
2024-04-05 (first published: 2024-03-26)
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Using SQL Elastic Pools
We use SQL elastic pools at work. I needed to learn more about their nuances and help you with some of their challenges. Setting Up Elastic Pools Here‘s some...
2024-04-05 (first published: 2024-03-29)
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Webinar Apr 9: Accelerating Success: De-risking and Streamlining Releases with Flyway Enterprise
On Tuesday I have a webinar with a Redgate sales engineer: Accelerating Success: De-risking and Streamlining Releases with Flyway Enterprise. This will cover You can register here. In this...
2024-04-05
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Spring 2024 Speaking Engagements
I will be presenting Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation at two upcoming events, one virtual and one in-person.
DBA Fundamentals Virtual User Group Tuesday, April 9 2024 at Noon...
2024-04-03 (first published: 2024-03-26)
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SQL Compare Force Column Order in a Table
I had a client that was concerned about SQL Compare behavior when a developer adds a column to the middle of a table. I wanted to reassure them, so...
2024-04-03 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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Off to SQL Saturday Salt Lake City … on Friday
I’m off on Thursday for Salt Lake City and a SQL Saturday on Friday. SQL Saturday Salt Lake City 2024 is happening, and I’m glad I get to go....
2024-04-02
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Power Query ODBC bug affecting date calculations
I was working on an imported Power BI semantic model, adding some fiscal year calculations to my date table. The date table was sourced from a view in Databricks...
2024-04-02
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How I use Terraform to deploy my AWS amplify react js project
As a Software Engineer, I would like to deploy my AWS Amplify react js project using Terraform so that I can automate my workflow and eliminate any manual intervention...
2024-04-01
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Interview around DevOps, Data, AI and Microsoft Fabric
A few weeks ago I did an interiview with Nagaraj Venkatesan – a good friend of mine who works for Microsoft Singapore. You can watch video below – I...
2024-04-01 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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Blogs
AI Helps Me with My Sloppiness
By Steve Jones
I type fairly well. Well, I type fast, but I do wear out a...
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...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
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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