Going Dark in SSMS
I haven’t been a big fan of dark mode in many tools, but I’ve been giving it a try in some applications as my eyes age. I decided to...
2020-03-27
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Blog Posts
Save the Dates for Redgate Streamed
We’ve got three days of online content coming your way from Redgate on Apr 1-3. There is a great lineup, and you can register for each day here: Wed,...
2020-03-27 (first published: 2020-03-20)
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Daily Coping 26-Mar 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-03-26
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The Business Case for SQL Server 2019
Thanks for joining us for the The Business Case for SQL Server 2019 webinar via Spark/Ed today, an overview of new features in and around SQL Server 2019's release but...
2020-03-26
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Transforming JSON to CSV with the help of Flatten task in Azure Data Factory
(2020-Mar-19) Recently, Microsoft introduced a new Flatten task to the existing set of powerful transformations available in the Azure Data Factory (ADF) Mapping Data Flows - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/data-flow-flatten.What this new task does...
2020-03-26 (first published: 2020-03-19)
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T-SQL Tuesday #124 – Query Store Summary
Happy St. Patrick’s Day (are you wearing something green)! For March I asked everyone to blog something related to Query Store, here is a summary of in alphabetical order...
2020-03-26 (first published: 2020-03-17)
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Daily Coping–25 Mar 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-03-25
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DRS Cluster Load Balancing Improvement for SQL Server on VMware
Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) should be enabled for all VMware host clusters, especially those who run SQL Server. It provides for resource consumption load balancing functionality into a host...
2020-03-25 (first published: 2020-03-16)
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SQL Server HADR overview
My Pluralsight course for new SQL Server DBAs Image credit to Jeff (t) Back in June of 2019, I published this YouTube video covering the highlights of the various...
2020-03-25
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sql2xls goes cross-platform
Last year I released sql2xls, a free open-source tool which lets you throw a bunch of scripts into a folder, run them automatically against SQL Server and get the...
2020-03-25
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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