Execute SQL Scripts on Snowflake using Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory has a new activity introduced this week (around the 10th of March 2022 for you future readers): the Script activity! This is not to be confused...
2022-03-13
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Blog Posts
Azure Redundancy for Storage
This is part of a series on my preparation for the DP-900 exam. This is the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals, part of a number of certification paths. You can...
2022-03-11 (first published: 2022-02-23)
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Daily Coping 11 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...
2022-03-11
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How to find tables with 0 records using space
This is a follow up post to the previous one about tables with no records using data space, with the idea coming from twitter of all places. Sometimes on...
2022-03-11
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Recipe 3: Merging and manipulating events
Welcome to the third recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-03-11 (first published: 2022-02-24)
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Database Code Reviews
I’ll be honest, ever since I did a SQL Homework about doing code reviews I’ve wanted to do a blog ... Continue reading
2022-03-10
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Database Code Reviews
I’ll be honest, ever since I did a SQL Homework about doing code reviews I’ve wanted to do a blog ... Continue reading
2022-03-10
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Snowflake Integration to Azure AD
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft Azure’s identity and access management providing authentication and authorization mechanism for internal and external applications in Azure ecosystem. With AD(more...)
The post Snowflake Integration to...
2022-03-10
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Check if File Exists Before Deploying SQL Script to Azure SQL Managed Instance in Azure Release Pipelines
I have been in Azure DevOps pipelines a lot recently, helping clients set up automated releases. Many of my clients are not in a place where automated build and...
2022-03-09 (first published: 2022-02-22)
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Daily Coping 9 Feb 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...
2022-03-09
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Blogs
Automatic Index Compaction
By ReviewMyDB
Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
The Goldilocks problem – Materialized Views
I’m sure you’ve all heard the tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but...
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
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