Share the Interesting Work
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at how we might divvy up our workload in a company.
2016-11-18
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Editorials
2016-11-17
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Held Hostage by the Database
Does your database development process prevent changes in your software? You shouldn't be held hostage by your database.
2016-11-16
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Local Database Issues
Steve Jones talks about the issues with using a local database in your application.
2016-11-14
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2016-11-11
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2016-11-10
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2016-11-08 (first published: 2013-02-14)
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I can ODBC clearly now
ODBC is the closest thing we have to a universal standard for data access across platforms, applications and data sources. So why doesn't DocumentDB support it?
2016-11-07
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What's Your Backup Speed?
This week Steve Jones has a bit of a competition. Share with him how fast you can back up a 1TB database.
2016-11-04
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Generating Our Own Bad Data
We depend on data quality to run our businesses efficiently. However, it's a problem when we mess that data up on purpose.
2016-11-02
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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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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