Microsoft MVP 2025: Continuing the Data Platform Journey
I am honored to announce that I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the ninth consecutive year, recognized in the Azure SQL and SQL Server technical areas...
2025-07-11
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Blog Posts
Time to Revive our YouTube Channel
It’s been forgotten about and neglected for few years but I’ve decided to dust off the cobwebs and revive our YouTube channel. Keep an eye on it, every new...
2025-07-11
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What is KTLO? Keep The Lights On vs Project Work in Agile
🔍 Demystifying KTLO: A Deep Dive into Keep The Lights On Work in IT and Agile In the realm of IT operations and software development, not all tasks are...
2025-07-10
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Bad Request Error when Running PowerShell Command in Azure Devops
I needed to run a PowerShell cmdlet in an Azure Devops pipeline. The cmdlet in question was New-AzRoleAssignment, but the cmdlet itself isn’t important. What is important is that...
2025-07-09
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Get Certified in Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) FAST with NO Experience Needed
As data becomes the backbone of modern business, understanding how to manage and analyze it in the cloud is a must-have skill. The DP-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals certification...
2025-07-09 (first published: 2025-06-22)
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SQL Server Auto-settings: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Settings That Could Be Hurting Your Performance If you’ve ever created a new SQL Server database and just left the default settings alone, you’re not alone. Microsoft provides a...
2025-07-09
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SQL Server Editions: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters
Understanding the Limits Before You Hit Them If you’re responsible for a SQL Server instance but don’t live and breathe licensing, you’re not alone. Many IT managers and sysadmins...
2025-07-09 (first published: 2025-06-25)
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The PASS Summit on Tour in Dallas
The PASS Summit goes on tour this year, with a September stop in Dallas. This is the first event in the series, and I’m excited to go back to...
2025-07-09
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Azure Cloud Chronicles with Microsoft MVPs YouTube Channel
In my YouTube subscriptions feed, a new video for the Azure Cloud Chronicles with Microsoft MVPs channel popped up and when I went to it, I noticed that the...
2025-07-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #188: Growing the Community
This month we have a great T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by John Sterrett. He has been a great help in multiple communities over the years, and he has quite an...
2025-07-08
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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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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