2016-06-22
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Editorials
A Beautiful Google Mind
Larry Page is a very interesting person, one that is looking to change the world.
2016-06-21
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Triple Check Your Restores
After the crash of an US Air Force database was reported, Steve Jones has some advice.
2016-06-20
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2016-06-20
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SQL Server 2016 is Just Faster
SQL Server 2016 runs faster, sometimes without you changing anything.
2016-06-17
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Stretch Pricing
The Stretch database feature in SQL Server 2016 is fantastic, but is it too expensive?
2016-06-15
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2016-06-14
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2016-06-13
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The Penalty for a Data Breach
One of the things that will be debated quite a bit in the next few years will be the penalties for data loss.
2016-06-13
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2016-06-10
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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...
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