2021 Advent of Code–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I’ll do a post on how to easily...
2021-12-10
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 10 Dec 2021
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...
2021-12-10
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Fail activity in Azure Data Factory and Why would I want to Fail
(2021-Nov-30) I heard a story about a young person who was asked why she was always cutting a small piece of meat and putting it aside before cooking a larger...
2021-12-10 (first published: 2021-11-30)
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SQL Homework – December 2021 – Changing collation
I can only speak for the locations I’ve worked at of course, but in all of the places I’ve worked ... Continue reading
2021-12-10 (first published: 2021-12-02)
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Understanding VMWare Components
Last Updated on January 9, 2022 by John Morehouse Recently I was looking to install VMWare components in my local network of things so that I could gain additional...
2021-12-10
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Daily Coping 9 Dec 2021
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...
2021-12-09
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SQL Managed Instance – Failover Groups Quick Tips
Lets summarise some important learnings about SQL MI and failover groups. when you add a database to a failover group the secondary database has the same edition / compute...
2021-12-09
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Storage options & Disk Types in GCP
Want to learn and use Google Cloud Storage?
What is Cloud Storage & Bucket?
Type of Disk avilable in Cloud Storage?
Lets Start! Continue reading ?
2021-12-09
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Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server – A new beginning
Imagine getting SA (sysadmin) access to your RDS SQL Server Instance! Well, that was not possible in the past, but during AWS re:Invent 2021, Amazon RDS Custom for SQL...
2021-12-08
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Building a pacemaker cluster to deploy a SQL Server availability group in Azure
There are new Ubuntu Pro 20.04 images available in the Azure marketplace with SQL Server 2019 pre-installed so I thought I’d run through how to create a three node...
2021-12-08 (first published: 2021-12-01)
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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...
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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