My job managing a calling list. : T-SQL Tuesday #150
I’m actually hosting this month and I was wondering about your first technical job. Mine was kind of interesting. I ... Continue reading
2022-05-10
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 9 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...
2022-05-09
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Database Design for Tracking Solar Production
We had a solar system installed at our house this year. I’m excited to see how this performs, as our estimates and research shows this ought to be a...
2022-05-09 (first published: 2022-04-27)
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Friend of Redgate 2022
I am honored and humbled to be chosen to be part of the Friend of RedGate program for another year. This program is near and dear to my heart, and I look forward...
2022-05-09
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Microsoft Graph API in Power Automate: Adding Guest Users to your Tenant
This is video three in a four-part series walking you through how to leverage the Microsoft Graph API within Power Automate. In this video, you
2022-05-09 (first published: 2022-05-03)
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Updated Pluralsight Course – Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security
My updated course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security” is now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here, or if...
2022-05-09
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Updated Pluralsight Course – Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security
My updated course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security” is now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here, or if...
2022-05-09
26 reads
Add Disk Performance Counters to Windows Task Manager
Have you ever wondered why Windows Server doesn’t show disk performance metrics in Task Manager, but your Windows 10/11 OS does? It’s a really silly difference. Let’s fix that....
2022-05-06 (first published: 2022-04-26)
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Azure Function with PowerShell and the Power BI REST API
In this blog post I’m going to show you how you can create an Azure Function that will interact with the Power BI REST API. I choose PowerShell as...
2022-05-06 (first published: 2022-04-26)
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Azure Redis Cache and Geo-replication
The concept of a geo-replicated partnership between a primary and secondary node is very similar to that of something you may have seen with Azure SQL DB, where the...
2022-05-06
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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!
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Automatic Index Compaction
By ReviewMyDB
Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
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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