Validating Replication (All or Just One Article)
You may sometimes have reports or other processes that are dependent on transactional replication being current. If that is the case, you will probably need a mechanism to check...
2019-08-09
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Blog Posts
Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 1
I have read quite a bit about “the death of Big Data” recently. To be
honest I’ve never liked the term Big Data. It has always skewed people’s
thinking...
2019-08-08
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 1
I have read quite a bit about “the death of Big Data” recently. To be
honest I’ve never liked the term Big Data. It has always skewed people’s
thinking...
2019-08-08
19 reads
Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 1
I have read quite a bit about “the death of Big Data” recently. To be
honest I’ve never liked the term Big Data. It has always skewed people’s
thinking...
2019-08-08
276 reads
Learning more Kubernetes
I’ve been slowly working my way through the 50 days of Kubernetes (K8s). As you might have guessed if you remember my first post, this has been more than...
2019-08-08 (first published: 2019-07-15)
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PASS Summit 2019 – spending the time
The session line up for PASS Summit 2019 was announced today...there are so many good sessions to go to..managing time and what we do with our limited time there...
2019-08-08
27 reads
Rename Azure VM OS Disk
In a recent post about creating Azure VMs using PowerShell, I noted a common issue that I run into where the name of the OS disk does not conform...
2019-08-08 (first published: 2019-07-16)
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T-SQL Tuesday #117 Invitation – When Have You Used MOT Tables?
When Memory-Optimized Tables (MOT) were announced for SQL Server, there was a lot of excitement about the technology. After this was released on SQL Server 2014, feelings waned with...
2019-08-08
56 reads
All Day Seminar on DevOps in Oslo
In just a couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting an all day session on DevOps for databases. It takes place on Friday, August 30th. You can click here now...
2019-08-07
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Gatekeeping and why language matters
This is the second in a series of posts about gatekeeping in Information Technology and other fields. Negative terminology The language we use matters. In the first post I...
2019-08-07
25 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...
WITH clause gets a 26ai boost!
By way of background, a while back I did video called “My New Favourite...
Automatic Index Compaction
By ReviewMyDB
Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
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