SQL Server Quickie #45 – SQL Server Availability Groups
Today I have uploaded SQL Server Quickie #45 to YouTube. This time I’m talking about SQL Server Availability Groups.
2023-04-05 (first published: 2023-03-21)
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Blog Posts
WIT Women Speakers Survey
There is a survey from the WIT group for female speakers. If you are a woman and speak in front of groups, or used to, please fill it out....
2023-04-05
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 03-27-2023 & MegaCON
Zach's 1st MegaCon 2011 Hello Dear Reader! This past week is a blur. It was a tough week at work. That sentence is an understatement, but its really all I...
2023-04-04
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Data Ceili 2023 – Schedule and Registration
Today we have announced the schedule for Data Céilí 2023 and have opened registration! We have two days of great sessions for you, the 8th of June will have...
2023-04-03
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Goal Progress for March 2023
The grade for March is also D. Details below, but just not making a lot of progress in these areas. In fact, I find myself not motivated to work...
2023-04-03
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Is Cataloging Your Data Important?
Data continues to be the lifeline for companies across the globe. As maturity levels continue to grow across companies, one aspect that sometimes needs to be checked is cataloging...
2023-04-03 (first published: 2023-03-20)
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KQL Series – some DevOps things: Provisioning using Powershell
If you have read any of my last few posts on provisioning Azure Data Explorer then you will probably be wondering….. Will he write about Powershell? Ok, I will....
2023-04-03 (first published: 2023-03-20)
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New Job -> Week 3 -> Creating Alerts
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. The main goal for week 3: setup much needed alerts on DTU...
2023-03-31 (first published: 2023-03-30)
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SQL Bits 2023 Recap
I had an amazing time adventuring to Wales with other members of the data community last week! It was my first international conference, and I had heard so many...
2023-03-31 (first published: 2023-03-23)
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The AI T-SQL Tuesday–#160
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, and this time there is an interesting invitation. Damien Jones reached out and wanted to host, so he gets to pick the topic...
2023-03-31 (first published: 2023-03-14)
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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...
WITH clause gets a 26ai boost!
By way of background, a while back I did video called “My New Favourite...
Automatic Index Compaction
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Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
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