Fifty Words for Databases
Phil wonders whether it is our poor vocabulary about databases that has lead to the failure of developers and Operations people to understand each other on the topic of deployment.
2015-03-09
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Editorials
Upgrade and Refresh, or Not?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at the upgrade cycle and how that affects our jobs.
2015-03-06
137 reads
Measuring Career Growth
A guest editorial from Tim Mitchell today looks at keeping track of what we have done in our careers, and the value that it gives us.
2015-03-05 (first published: 2010-10-01)
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2015-03-04
571 reads
Pier to Pier Replication on Frozen Lake Erie
In a guest post, Rodney Landrum ponders the gaps in his DBA experience at the edge of Lake Erie.
2015-03-02
124 reads
The Express Choice
This week Steve Jones wonders if you'd be willing to use Express edition in production situations.
2015-02-27
145 reads
Building Small Habits
Today Steve Jones talks about development, and finding ways to make small changes that improve your code.
2015-02-26
208 reads
Small Leadership
Today Steve Jones talks leadership, and the value it can bring to your team if you display just a little of it.
2015-02-25
143 reads
Making Plans
PASS President Tom Larock doesn't make long term plans. Steve Jones doesn't make long term plans. Do you?
2015-02-24
129 reads
The Query Store
This week Steve Jones talks about the query store after an article was released describing it.
2015-02-23
215 reads
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