Microsoft SQL Server identify I/O bottlenecks
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SSIS Packages - the Simplest Way to Create Them
Martin Policht delves deeper into the specifics of SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2's Integration Services by presenting the most straightforward method of creating SSIS packages using Import and Export Wizard.
Thoughts on SQL Server Certification
This is probably part 1 of a series, but no guarantees.
Why Certify?
I've been working with SQL Server for 10 years...
Should We Lead or Follow?
Microsoft used to lead the way and teach us about their products. But it seems that perhaps the tide is turning and they are looking for us to lead them. Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the topic.
XML Workshop 25 - Inserting elements and attributes to an XML document
This article from MVP Jacob Sebastian looks at the modify method for changing an XML document.
Leaving a SQL Server DBA Job Gracefully
You’re leaving your current employer for a new opportunity and want to make the move as smooth as possible. You don’t want to burn your bridges and want to make sure that everything you’ve left behind can be managed by the people you’ve left behind or the DBA who is replacing you. So, you’ve done your handover documentation and trained up the new guy. You definitely don’t want to be that DBA who is cursed the week after they leave when their network account is disabled and a bunch of stuff ‘breaks’.
Scripting database objects in SQL Server 2008
In this article, we would go through the
steps to script the objects in a database using SQL Server 2008....
An Urgent Ad Hoc Report
In this new article, Yakov Shlafman shows us how he wrote a quick ad hoc report of expenses so that he could leave on time one day.
Security Regulations
There have been calls for governmental security regulations for IT. Is that a good thing? Steve Jones comments today.
Finding Date Ranges for Calculating Statistics
Finding Date Ranges for Calculating StatisticsI received the following question from a fellow DBA:
I need your input to derive the...
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Automatic Index Compaction
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One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
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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