Capturing Queries Can Be a Pain
The moment you decide you want to monitor your SQL Server instance for query behavior, you’re going to be forced to make a bunch of choices. Further, all these...
2020-08-11 (first published: 2020-08-03)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 11 Aug 2020
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...
2020-08-11
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My T-SQL Tuesday #129 Time Capsule
This month the T-SQL Tuesday invitation comes from Tamara Clark. I strong-armed Tamara last fall, along with her husband, into hosting this year. She came through, with a great...
2020-08-11
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Things That Shouldn’t Be Normal in Database Development (28 minute video/podcast episode)
Many people use entrenched processes for database development that have been in place so long that it’s hard to imagine doing it any other way. In this episode, I...
2020-08-11 (first published: 2020-07-30)
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T-SQL Tuesday #129 – Let’s Build a Time Capsule
It is time for another T-SQL Tuesday! Thank you Tamera Clark (t|b) for hosting this month. This month we are building a Time Capsule. I decided to make mine...
2020-08-11
2 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #129 – Let’s Build a Time Capsule
It is time for another T-SQL Tuesday! Thank you Tamera Clark (t|b) for hosting this month. This month we are building a Time Capsule. I decided to make mine...
2020-08-11
2 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #129 – Let’s Build a Time Capsule
It is time for another T-SQL Tuesday! Thank you Tamera Clark (t|b) for hosting this month. This month we are building a Time Capsule. I decided to make mine...
2020-08-11
16 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #129 – Let’s Build a Time Capsule
It is time for another T-SQL Tuesday! Thank you Tamera Clark (t|b) for hosting this month. This month we are building a Time Capsule. I decided to make mine...
2020-08-11
4 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #129 – Let’s Build a Time Capsule
It is time for another T-SQL Tuesday! Thank you Tamera Clark (t|b) for hosting this month. This month we are building a Time Capsule. I decided to make mine...
2020-08-11
8 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #129 – Let’s Build a Time Capsule
It is time for another T-SQL Tuesday! Thank you Tamera Clark (t|b) for hosting this month. This month we are building a Time Capsule. I decided to make mine...
2020-08-11
4 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...
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...
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How We Handled a Vendor Retry That Loaded Twice in Snowflake
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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