TSQL Tuesday #150 – My first technical job
It’s that time of the month again, the blog party, woohoo! This time Kenneth Fisher (b | t) has invited us to blog about our first tech job. Oh...
2022-05-30 (first published: 2022-05-10)
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday 150: My first technical job
I am glad to be contributing to the 150th blog party started by Adam Machanic and has helped so many get our blogs going. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is...
2022-05-30 (first published: 2022-05-10)
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Daily Coping 27 May 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-05-27
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Data Engineer Diary: How to make Power BI Gateway work in an environment with a proxy
With this blog post, I would like to show and describe to you the last lesson that I learned on my recent project regarding the installation and configuration of...
2022-05-27 (first published: 2022-04-04)
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KQL Series – Interactive Analytics with Azure Data Explorer
This blog is about how we can do interactive analytics with Azure Data Explorer to explore data with ad hoc, interactive, and lightning fast queries over small to extremely...
2022-05-27 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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Techorama 2022 Slides
I had a great time at Techorama. I’ll do a writeup on the event, but for now, here are my slides. The VCS Primer Adopting a DevOps Process for...
2022-05-27
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Daily Coping 26 May 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-05-26
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Daily Coping 25 May 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-05-25
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Data is not immutable
Information — in the form of data — usually stored as binary 1s and 0s in an electronic data store, is not immutable. Even the hardiest data storage designed...
2022-05-25
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Logic Apps and Source Control (with PowerShell)
At a data warehouse project I’m using a couple of Logic Apps to do some lightweight data movements. For example: reading a SharePoint list and dumping the contents into...
2022-05-25 (first published: 2022-04-20)
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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