Daily Coping 28 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...
2022-03-28
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Blog Posts
Parsing JSON in SQL Server with OPENJSON
Recently I had a piece of JSON of which I needed to extract data from to put into a table in Azure SQL DB. Unfortunately, the structure of the...
2022-03-28
90 reads
Shift calculations (or same time every day)
One of the more interesting jobs I’ve had over the years was for a company that created emergency room software. ... Continue reading
2022-03-28 (first published: 2022-03-15)
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Using Azure Blob Storage in Power Automate
In this video, Devin you will learn how to setup an Azure Blob Storage account and then use it in Power Automate. With Power Automate
2022-03-28 (first published: 2022-03-11)
580 reads
An Amazing Live SQL Bits in 2022
I was lucky to travel to London last week and attend SQL Bits 2022. This was the first live SQL Bits I’ve been to in 4 or 5 years,...
2022-03-25 (first published: 2022-03-15)
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Daily Coping 25 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...
2022-03-25
22 reads
Space Invaders on Kubernetes
A while ago I blogged about an awesome Chaos Engineering tools built by Eugenio Marzo (t) call KubeInvaders. Since then Eugenio has updated the repo to make it easier...
2022-03-25 (first published: 2022-03-10)
273 reads
Daily Coping 24 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...
2022-03-24
17 reads
A new book is on its way
I am thrilled to announce that Microsoft Press (Pearson) has agreed to let us do another Inside Out book this year. This news is so fresh I haven’t even...
2022-03-23
21 reads
Book Review – Mastering Snowflake Solutions: Supporting Analytics and Data Sharing
Disclaimer: Apress gave me a free copy of the book to review. People that know me, also know I always give honest feedback 🙂 I had the pleasure of...
2022-03-23
22 reads
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