Daily Coping 23 Mar 2023
Today’s coping tip is to focus your attention on the good things you take for granted. My life is great. I used to say perfect, but a few struggles...
2023-03-23
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Blog Posts
FIRST Robotics Competition 2023 - World Championships!
Last week I wrote about our FRC team, asking for support in in the form of a cheering section. Today, I’m asking for more assistance for these amazing students.
Things...
2023-03-23 (first published: 2023-03-21)
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Resources for Adding Graph Structures to Your Database at VS Live
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at VS Live Las Vegas 2023 on graph databases. I hope you enjoyed it, and if you have questions, please feel free...
2023-03-23
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Call to Action for Female Speakers to Submit to EightKB
EightKB is a wonderfully ran conference by my friends Mark Wilkinson (T | B), Anthony Nocentino (T | B), Andrew Pruski (T | B), and
The post Call to Action...
2023-03-22 (first published: 2023-03-14)
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Children at Technical Conferences Part II
Nearly 10 years ago I wrote a blog post about having my son tag along at various conferences I was speaking at. So much has changed in the past...
2023-03-22 (first published: 2023-03-13)
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Daily Coping 22 Mar 2023
Today’s coping tip is to appreciate your hands and all the things they do for you. I make a living with my hands. I type constantly, which is a...
2023-03-22
7 reads
Daily Coping 21 Mar 2023
Today’s coping tip is to listen to a piece of music without doing anything else. This is surprisingly hard. I turn something on, but then I look around, think...
2023-03-21
17 reads
Errata for my book: Pro Encryption in SQL Server 2022
My biggest fear when my book went into production was that any factual errors had slipped through my checks and the various reviews. I had a lot of reviewer...
2023-03-21
37 reads
20 Minute Sessions: A Couple of Thoughts
At the most recent SQL Bits, I gave two 20 minute sessions. I also gave one last year. There is a little bit of controversy around these (nothing real,...
2023-03-20
14 reads
Daily Coping 20 Mar 2023
Today’s coping tip is to get outside and notice how the weather feels. This was a good tip to see before my trip last week to the UK. I...
2023-03-20
13 reads
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
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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