Red Gate announced today that it has acquired Cerebrata, the maker of user-acclaimed tools for developers building on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. The agreement brings together two companies that share a user-first philosophy and a passion for tools that transform the way developers work.
This editorial was originally published on Nov 7, 2006. It is being re-run as Steve is at SQL in the City today. Today Steve talks about security using virtualization.
How do I find out where the SQL Server Error Log file is located for a specific SQL Server instance? In this tip we look at different ways a DBA can identify the location of the SQL Server Error Log file used by an instance of SQL Server.
BI Architect Bill Pearson concludes his introduction to the MDX Members functions. In this Level we wrap up our exploration of the “family” group with the .LastSibling, and Cousin() functions.
Today Steve Jones talks about jobs, and how life is too short to stick with a crappy job.
In SQL Server, replication is a widely adopted technology for the purpose of real-time data replication between SQL servers. It serves the purpose of keeping data consistent between multiple end points. So the last thing we want to hear from clients is that data is no longer in synch, and as DBA, we don't want to be the last person to realize replication is out of order or broken. Here are some steps you can take to monitor SQL Server replication.
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If you are looking to gain some BI experience or tackle a project that might help your company, Steve Jones suggests you consider doing something for HR.
This article covers the use of the TOP clause to select data from a table based on the TOP n columns in a table.
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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