Extract Objects from SSRS Reports
A discrete list of database objects is extracted from SSRS using SQL, SSIS, and RegExtractor in order to identify reports that might break when a schema upgrade is performed.
The Impact of Outages
Steve Jones talks about the problems of outages, and why we ought to perhaps introduce failure into our systems to help us learn to cope with them.
CLR Performance Testing
Are Common Language Runtime routines in SQL Server faster or slower than the equivalent T-SQL code? How would you go about testing the relative performance objectively? Solomon Rutzky creates a test framework to try to answer the question and comes up with some surprising results that you can check for yourself.
SQL Saturday #64 - Baton Rouge, LA
Come join Steve Jones for a day of SQL Server training in Baton Rouge on Aug 6, 2011. Free training!
Geeky Distractions
This Friday Steve Jones has a non-work related, but fun poll. Let us know what your geeky media recommendations are this year.
SQL Overview V - Monitoring Long Running Jobs
Continuing with his series on monitoring your SQL Servers, David Bird now looks a a way to fin those long running, active jobs.
Backup to multiple files for faster and smaller SQL Server backup files
Write your database backup to multiple files. In addition to writing your database backup to one file you have the ability to write to multiple files at the same time and therefore split up the workload. The advantage to doing this is that the backup process can run using multiple threads and therefore finish faster as well as having much smaller files that can be moved across the network or copied to a CD or DVD.
Third Normal Form
The third article in our series on normalization from Tom Thomson continues with an explanation on what constitutes third normal form.
You Can Telecommute
Today Steve Jones tells you can implement telecommuting at your job and gives you a few ideas how to get it approved.
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