The DBA Tax
Are you a DBA tax on your company? Or an asset that's worth the cost. Steve Jones talks about trying to be the latter and not the former.
2016-01-19 (first published: 2012-07-09)
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Editorials
Security Convenience
Security is always a hot topic, and Steve Jones notes that we should be specific when we work with security.
2016-01-15
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Tracking Professional Athletes
Today Steve Jones looks at the use of tracking sensors to gather spatial data on professional athletes for later analysis.
2016-01-14
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2016-01-12
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2016-01-11
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2016-01-11
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2016-01-08
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2016-01-07
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Hacking to Hide
People have hacked the voyage data recorders in ships. Steve Jones thinks this is a fundamental problem in computing systems.
2016-01-05
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Surface Book
Steve Jones is looking for a new laptop. Perhaps. Read on to see what he wants in a machine.
2016-01-04
199 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...
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...
Forums
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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