Session Materials for dataMinds Connect 2022
You can find the slides and the demo scripts (.sql files) in my Github repo. You can use the materials as you like, attribution would be nice 🙂
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2022-10-10
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Blog Posts
Viewing errors with extended events
A little while back I came across this post: Identifying failed queries with extended events. It has a script to ... Continue reading
2022-10-10 (first published: 2022-09-27)
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Daily Coping 7 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to be willing to share how you feel and ask for help when needed. This has been something that I never did well. My parents...
2022-10-07
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Understanding Microsoft Purview Pricing
Ever since its official launch around October 2021, Microsoft Purview has been one of the more popular services in Azure, with a steady stream of new features expanding the...
2022-10-07 (first published: 2022-09-27)
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Why I tweet about work and personal topics from the same account
Over the last few years, I’ve had a few people ask me why I don’t create two Twitter accounts so I can separate work and personal things. I choose...
2022-10-07 (first published: 2022-09-26)
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Daily Coping 6 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to remind yourself that you are enough just as you are. This is interesting, as I’m not satisfied with who I am today. I’m not...
2022-10-06
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T-SQL Tuesday #155 –The Dynamic Code Invitation
Apologies for the late invitation. A minor snafu has me hosting again. This is the monthly blog party where someone hosts and you all write a response. I’d like...
2022-10-06
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Azure Managed Instance Changing DNS prefix
Azure Managed Instances are provisioned by default with a yourname.uniqueid.databases.windows.net DNS fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Even on your private virtual network you will still have to use this...
2022-10-05 (first published: 2022-09-20)
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Daily Coping 5 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to choose to see your mistakes as steps to help you learn. I preach this with the kids I coach. Mistakes will happen, but let’s...
2022-10-05
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Registered for the Data Community Summit
I was reminded this week that I needed to get registered for the Data Community Summit 2022 since I’m speaking. I also needed a hotel, so I took some...
2022-10-05
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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...
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