Daily Coping 24 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to be gentle with someone you feel inclined to criticize. It’s very easy, and maybe very human, to start to criticize others for doing something...
2023-02-24
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Blog Posts
No In-Person SQLBits For Me
I am saddened to report that I will not be able to attend SQLBits in person this year as originally planned. I was involved in a terrible car accident...
2023-02-24
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One Thing You Wish You Knew While Learning PostgreSQL: PGSqlPhriday #006
I will not even attempt to hide it, I’m very much in the learning phase of my PostgreSQL journey. As such, I’m constantly picking up new facts. However, I’m...
2023-02-24
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Patch your SQL Server instance today
On 14 February 2023, Microsoft released updates for all supported versions of SQL Server in the form of a General Distribution Release (GDR). A GDR is an out-of-band update...
2023-02-24 (first published: 2023-02-15)
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Speaking at Data Saturday Rheinland – Migrating SSIS to ADF
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be talking about how you can migrate your SSIS skills to Azure Data Factory at Data Saturday Rheinland. At the time of writing...
2023-02-24
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The Baseline for Flyway
In my previous post, I set up the Flyway Desktop projects for SQL Server and PostgreSQL. I also added a table to each platform for development. In this post,...
2023-02-24 (first published: 2023-02-13)
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Architecting MS SQL Server on VMware vSphere 8.0 released
I’m thrilled to announce that the “Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere” 8.0 best practices guide has been released! I’m pleased to have been able to contribute to...
2023-02-23
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Daily Coping 23 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to give sincere compliments today to people. A tough day recently coaching, but I kept this in mind. Complementing parents, competitors and fellow coaches, and...
2023-02-23
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Daily Coping 22 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to share something you find inspiring, helpful, or amusing. Maybe not inspiring to you, but it was for me. We recorded a number of customers...
2023-02-22
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New Microsoft Purview features
Microsoft Purview, formally called Azure Purview (see Azure Purview is generally available) has recently released a number of new cool features. I wanted to call out a few of...
2023-02-22 (first published: 2023-02-09)
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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
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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