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As a Data Platform Solution Architect for...
2016-01-06
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SQL with Dustin Ryan
Getting Started with R Visuals in Power BI
Thanks to the December 2015 update released for Power BI, we can now use R to visualize our data in...
2016-01-05 (first published: 2015-12-30)
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Sentiment Analysis & Key Phrase Detection w/ Power Query & Power BI
Recently I worked on a neat little POC with Patrick Leblanc for a customer in Education who wished to perform sentiment...
2015-12-24 (first published: 2015-12-16)
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Why I Joined Microsoft
If you follow me in social media, you may have seen my announcement that I’ve joined Microsoft. Late in October...
2015-12-02
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Tons of Updates to Power BI in October!
There were so many updates to Power BI this month I thought I’d put all the links to the information...
2015-10-29
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Tons of Updates to Power BI in October!
There were so many updates to Power BI this month I thought I’d put all the links to the information...
2015-10-29
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10 DAX Calculations for your Tabular or Power Pivot Model (Part 2)
This is part two of my 10 DAX Calculations blog series. In this series I’ve blogged ten different DAX calculations...
2015-10-21
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10 DAX Calculations for your Tabular or Power Pivot Model (Part 2)
This is part two of my 10 DAX Calculations blog series. In this series I’ve blogged ten different DAX calculations...
2015-11-02 (first published: 2015-10-21)
2,412 reads
Data Warehouse Design Challenge: Relating a Temporal Fact Table to a Date Dimension
This past week I ran into an interesting challenge with a client. The data warehouse is capturing testing data for...
2015-10-23 (first published: 2015-10-19)
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Data Warehouse Design Challenge: Relating a Temporal Fact Table to a Date Dimension
This past week I ran into an interesting challenge with a client. The data warehouse is capturing testing data for...
2015-10-19
463 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