Storage Field Day 23 – HammerSpace
I am thrilled to have been a part of this year’s Storage Field Day 23 event, held by Gestalt IT during the first week of March. This event is...
2022-05-16
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday Jacksonville Slide Decks
Here are the slide decks for my sessions at SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2022 Continuous Integration Using Local Agents Adopting a DevOps Process for Your Database
2022-05-14
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Daily Coping 13 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...
2022-05-13
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Power BI: Creating an Info Button with UNICHAR()
Reports are only as useful as they are easily understandable. When making reports for executives and other business leaders, it is vital to ensure the context and insights of...
2022-05-13 (first published: 2022-05-04)
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Snowflake + Azure Privatelink
Azure Privatelink provides private connectivity from an Azure Virtual Network to Azure PaaS such as Snowflake. This secures the connection between client endpoint and Snowflake(more...)
The post Snowflake + Azure...
2022-05-13
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SQL Saturday Jacksonville – May 14th, 2022
Hi Everyone, This is your Austin SQL Server Consultant and I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Jacksonville. I am happy to get back out and, on the road,...
2022-05-13
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Synergy of Azure Synapse & Joyful Craftsmen
Why „synergy”? Let’s take a look at the context first. Data warehouses have undergone development on Microsoft technologies in the last few years.
From the beginning, customer data warehouses were...
2022-05-13 (first published: 2022-04-28)
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Azure SQL Managed Instance – Maintenance Windows
A post close to my heart, Azure SQL Managed Instance, I have blogged about this many times but I feel I should be sharing more details about this. One...
2022-05-12
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Cross DB Access With Module Signing
Foreword
I’ve recently had to revisit this topic and spent a lot of time recalling the details. So I’m writing this blog post mainly as a reminder for myself.
The most...
2022-05-12
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Daily Coping 12 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...
2022-05-12
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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...
WITH clause gets a 26ai boost!
By way of background, a while back I did video called “My New Favourite...
Automatic Index Compaction
By ReviewMyDB
Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
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