Talk to the duck.
Over the years, one of the best pieces of problem solving advice I’ve been able to give my kids is ... Continue reading
2022-03-31
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Blog Posts
Tech Lunch News
Ve středu 9.3.2022 jsme se tradičně sešli nad novinkami ze světa dat, datových skladů, Power BI, Azure apod. Jestli jste chyběli (ale příště dorazíte, že? :D), zde je malý...
2022-03-31
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ADX and KQL – Azure Monitor Logs in Azure Data Studio
G’day, I recently wrote about the Kusto Query Language Extension that’s available as an plugin for Azure Data Studio along with KQL Magic. The main reason that people have...
2022-03-30 (first published: 2022-03-17)
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Calling the Intercom API with Power Query and Refreshing in the Power BI Service
I needed to pull some user data for an app that uses Intercom. While I will probably import the data using Data Factory or a function in the long...
2022-03-30 (first published: 2022-03-22)
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Daily Coping 30 Mar 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...
2022-03-30
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On bias
Last week saw the second month of my employment at Microsoft. I admit that I’m enjoying my job, and I can’t deny that the reduced amount of time I’ve...
2022-03-30
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Passed a CosmosDB Exam
I took the beta exam for Cosmos DB a few months back. I did this as part of the MVP program, as they were asking people to evaluate the...
2022-03-30
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Azure AD Automatic Provisioning for Snowflake
Azure AD application provisioning refers to automatically creating user identities, groups and roles in the applications that users need access to for accounts created in(more...)
The post Azure AD Automatic...
2022-03-29
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Book Review – Azure Data Factory by Example
I just finished the book Azure Data Factory by Example: Practical Implementation for Data Engineers by Richard Swinbank. The book was not exactly what I was expecting, but that’s...
2022-03-29
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Daily Coping 29 Mar 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...
2022-03-29
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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