Is it really that hard to be polite, kind and respectful of those around you?
I dislike the term Politically Correct. Not because the original idea of it is a bad one, but it’s been ... Continue reading
2020-02-13
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Blog Posts
Power Platform Quick Tips – Episode 04: Hiding Power BI Visuals Interactivity
Welcome back to my series on Power Platform quick tips! In this episode you will learn how to hide the interactive capabilities of your report
2020-02-13 (first published: 2020-02-05)
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Using Erik Darling’s sp_pressure_detector to resolve CPU issues
Last Friday I spent my lunch break going through some links I had marked for future reading. One of them was a post earlier this month by Erik Darling...
2020-02-13 (first published: 2020-01-28)
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What's New in SQL 2019? at the Santa Fe SQL Server User Group
Hi Santa Fe! My first remote presentation for the Santa Fe SQL Server UG was on "What's New in SQL Server 2019?" Thanks to my friend Adrian Mee for...
2020-02-13
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ADF and passwords with Azure Key Vault & set up GIT
Have you worked with ADF yet? Did you configure the GIT code repository to automatically upload all changes to having your own isolated branch during development? If not yet,...
2020-02-12
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ADF and passwords with Azure Key Vault & set up GIT
Have you worked with ADF yet? Did you configure the GIT code repository to automatically upload all changes to having your own isolated branch during development? If not yet,...
2020-02-12
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Data Events in Australia and New Zealand in early 2020
Over the course of the next few weeks there are some significant events taking place that reflect technologies on the Microsoft data platform and beyond. Thursday 13th and 14th...
2020-02-12
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Dealing with rejection
“Dear speaker This serves as notice that your session submission was not selected for our upcoming event. We had a lot of sessions to sort through, and unfortunately there...
2020-02-12
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Quick tip: Quickly bulk edit lines in SSMS
Have you ever needed to bulk edit a table from excel to change it into a group of insert statements or change multiple query lines? In SQL Server Management...
2020-02-12
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Speaking at Data Grillen 2020
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at Data Grillen 2020 the conference runs from 28 May 2020 through 29 May 2020. This is an incredible event packed with...
2020-02-12
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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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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