Making Phone Calls from Azure Event Hub Messages
Recently I did a presentation at our local SQL Server User Group (SSUG) on Managing Streaming Data Pipelines Using Azure Data Services and as such wanted to build out...
2017-05-30
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Mr. Fox SQL
What Exactly is the “Data Platform” Nowadays?
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A couple of months ago I was presenting at SQL Saturday Melbourne (582) on Azure Cognitive...
2017-04-20 (first published: 2017-04-18)
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What Exactly is the “Data Platform” Nowadays?
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] A couple of months ago I was presenting at SQL Saturday Melbourne (582) on Azure Cognitive Services and got chatting with some of the...
2017-04-18
9 reads
A Collection of SQL Server Help Scripts
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Like probably every SQL DBA, consultant, architect etc etc out there that has ever worked...
2017-03-13
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A Collection of SQL Server Help Scripts
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Like probably every SQL DBA, consultant, architect etc etc out there that has ever worked on or used SQL Server they will likely have...
2017-03-13
16 reads
Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics – An API Calling Application
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Just last week we had the fantastic opportunity to present at Microsoft Ignite 2017 in...
2017-02-27 (first published: 2017-02-22)
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Azure Cognitive Services – Text Analytics API Application
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] [UPDATED 7 JUN 2020 – ADDED NEW TEXT ANALYTICS v3.0 FEATURES!] Just last week we had the fantastic opportunity to present at Microsoft...
2017-02-22
14 reads
SQL Saturday 582 Melbourne (11 Feb 2017) and Ignite 2017 (14-17 Feb 2017)
For those not aware there are 2 cool local and national events coming to both Melbourne and Gold Coast…
SQL Saturday582 (Sat...
2017-01-17
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SQL Saturday 582 Melbourne (11 Feb 2017) and Ignite 2017 (14-17 Feb 2017)
For those not aware there are 2 cool local and national events coming to both Melbourne and Gold Coast… SQL Saturday 582 (Sat 11 Feb 2017). Melbourne. For those looking for...
2017-01-17
4 reads
Azure Cognitive Services API’s with SQL Server 2016 CLR
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Azure Cognitive Services is relatively new functionality within Azure that exposes some truly amazing APIs that...
2016-09-20 (first published: 2016-09-12)
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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