SQLRally
A new event is coming to the East Coast next year that will give people a chance to experience a SQL Server conference at a much lower cost.
Shared Datasets in SQL Server 2008 R2
Shared Datasets are one of the features introduced in SQL Server 2008 R2. This article demonstrates how to implement Shared Datasets as well their use-case scenarios.
ANSI PADDING, Trailing Whitespace, and Variable Character Columns
What does ANSI_PADDING mean and how does it affect my SQL Server database?
Collective Intelligence
Trying to keep up with all the learning going on in the SQL Community can be frustrating. Or is it? Give us your answer in this week's Friday poll.
Extending Hierarchical Data Modeling Demonstrated in SQL
The capability of extending the limits of combining multiple node hierarchical structures has not been fully explored. Michael M. David presents a solution to advanced structure combining that is simple to use, generic and freely extends the way hierarchical structures can be semantically combined to produce advanced new hierarchical data structure mashups that dynamically increase the value of the data.
From “One of the Pack” to “Top Dog”
A guest editorial today from Justin H-Davies examines the change to management from the perspective of someone going through the transition. How do you deal with those former co-workers?
Achieve Spatial Data Support in SSIS
Spatial data support in SSIS is weak in comparison to SQL Server. This article demonstrates how to use the CLR to achieve the SQL Server levels of spatial data support in SSIS.
How to Increase Query Speed With a Little Communication
How my former boss solved a performance issue by changing the business rules, instead of query optimization.
Is it Time to Switch to ELT?
Extract-load-transform integration can offer performance and cost advantages over ETL. Here's how to pick the right approach.
Early July 2010 PASS VC Presentations
In July start with the following presentations from the AppDev and DBA Virtual Chapters of PASS:
Loops, Lookups and Splits: SSIS Beyond the Basics
Why Should I use Stored Procedures?
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
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