How To Fix OBS Black Screen when recording SQL Server Session Demo’s?
Everyone loves a demo. When I say everyone, I mean I personally love seeing a demo in a session which is why 99% of any sessions I present will...
2020-04-02
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Blog Posts
Learn SSIS and ADF for Free
It’s not from SQLServerCentral, though I hope to do more training across the next few months. Andy Leonard is offering Free Training for People Who Have Lost Their Jobs....
2020-04-02
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Moving to a New SqlClient
DotNet developers, if you’re using the System.Data.SqlClient, stop. Move over to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient now. It’s easy to do, well, it’s relatively easy to say that. The actual work isn’t that...
2020-04-02 (first published: 2020-03-26)
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Quickly Editing Data in SSMS
WARNING: do not do this in production. A quick blog post on a SSMS trick: how to quickly edit data. Sometimes you directly want to manipulate data without having...
2020-04-02
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Stress Cases and Data Visualization
Times are stressful right now. There is an ongoing pandemic affecting people’s health and livelihoods. Schedules are messed up, kids are home. People who aren’t used to working remotely...
2020-04-02 (first published: 2020-03-26)
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User Defined Types and Temp Tables Gotcha
This tripped me up a few weeks ago, but once I stopped and thought about for a moment it made total sense. I was trying to copy some data...
2020-04-02
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User Defined Types and Temp Tables Gotcha
This tripped me up a few weeks ago, but once I stopped and thought about for a moment it made total sense. I was trying to copy some data...
2020-04-02
4,372 reads
ADF – Deployment from master branch code (JSON files)
In the previous episode, I showed how to deploy Azure Data Factory in a way recommended by Microsoft, which is deployment from adf_publish branch from ARM template. However, there...
2020-04-01
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ADF – Deployment from master branch code (JSON files)
In the previous episode, I showed how to deploy Azure Data Factory in a way recommended by Microsoft, which is deployment from adf_publish branch from ARM template. However, there...
2020-04-01
38 reads
Being awarded the PASS PASSion Award – you can too
The annual PASSion Award is the highest accolade given to a PASS volunteer. Presented during the annual PASS Summit conference, this award recognizes an individual’s exemplary service and commitment...
2020-04-01
128 reads
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