T-SQL Tuesday #141 Work/Life Balance
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by TJay Belt (@tjaybelt). I find this month’s topic, balancing work and life, intriguing, and after a hiatus of non-blogging, I’m happy that...
2021-08-10
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Blog Posts
Creating SQL Databases in AKS with PVC – Part 2
Last week I created the below with a dummy database and is something that I will do against SQL server but this time that has a persistent volume claim....
2021-08-09
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Daily Coping 9 Aug 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...
2021-08-09
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Data Mesh: Centralized ownership vs decentralized ownership
I have done a ton of research lately on Data Mesh (see the excellent Building a successful Data Mesh – More than just a technology initiative for more details),...
2021-08-09 (first published: 2021-07-23)
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How do I unlock a SQL Server Login using T-SQL (without changing the password)?
We recently had an application login (SQL Server authenticated) in one of our training environments start locking out on a ... Continue reading
2021-08-09 (first published: 2021-07-22)
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Podcast and presentation decks on data architectures
Tomorrow (Tuesday (8/10/21) I will be on a podcast for SaxonGlobal called “The Alphabet Soup of Data Architectures” where I will talk about the modern data warehouse, data fabric,...
2021-08-09
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Podcast and presentation decks on data architectures
Tomorrow (Tuesday (8/10/21) I will be on a podcast for SaxonGlobal called “The Alphabet Soup of Data Architectures” where I will talk about the modern data warehouse, data fabric,...
2021-08-09
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Container Limits and SQL Server
Limits in Containers Docker gives you the ability to control a container’s access to CPU, Memory, and network and disk IO using resource constraints, sometimes called Limits. You define...
2021-08-06 (first published: 2021-07-25)
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Daily Coping 6 Aug 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...
2021-08-06
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Using Aggregates in Calculations with Other Columns Functions–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. In the last post on Window functions, I...
2021-08-06 (first published: 2021-07-21)
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Blogs
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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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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