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2023-03-19 (first published: 2023-03-18)
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Blog Posts
KQL Series – high level of data ingestion- setup
In this blog post let us stop for a second and see where we are in this whole create an Azure Data Explorer cluster and ingest data.High level summary...
2023-03-19
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KQL Series – ingesting data into Azure Data Explorer from IoT Hub
This blog post is rare because I am dedicating it to my good mate Bryn Lewis who spoke recently at a community event I ran (the first free community...
2023-03-19
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KQL Series – ingesting data into Azure Data Explorer using csv files
In my previous blog post KQL Series – ingesting data using Azure Stream Analytics I talked about one of the more easier ways to ingest data – which is via...
2023-03-19
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KQL Series – ingesting data using Azure Stream Analytics
This blog post is about another method of ingesting data into Azure Data Explorer. Azure Stream Analytics is a cloud-based stream processing service that allows us to ingest and...
2023-03-19
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KQL Series – ingesting data via Event Grid into Azure Data Explorer
This blog post is about using event grid to ingest data into Azure Data Explorer and was a method I had to use with a client. It was awesome...
2023-03-19
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KQL Series – overview of ingesting data into our ADX cluster
In the previous blog post we created a database in our Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster. In this blog post we will discuss how we can ingest data into that database...
2023-03-19
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#PGSQLPhriday 006: Wrap Up & Summary
Your mission, if you chose to accept it, was to share a single tip/hint/fact/something that you wish you’d known about PostgreSQL when you were just getting started learning it....
2023-03-17 (first published: 2023-03-06)
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Daily Coping 17 Mar 2023
Today’s coping tip is to eat mindfully. Appreciate the taste, texture, and smell of your food. I am not a big foodie. I’ve been to some cool dinners with...
2023-03-17
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SQLpassion Live Training about SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals
On April 4, 2023 I will run an SQLpassion Live Training about SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals. If you have a database driven application which reacts very slowly when...
2023-03-17 (first published: 2023-03-07)
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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...
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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