Lost in Space
It seems a tremendous amount of data is lost every year on laptops in airports. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with physical security and your portable computers.
Lost in Space
It seems a tremendous amount of data is lost every year on laptops in airports. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with physical security and your portable computers.
Report Warns Of Data Warehouse 'Bottleneck' In Real-Time Analytics
In a report entitled "Really Urgent Analytics: The Sweet Spot for Real-Time Data Warehousing," Forrester advises intelligence and knowledge management professionals to familiarize themselves with the various approaches for adapting a data warehouse to meet real-time requirements, and, if necessary, consider bypassing the data warehouse altogether.
Labor Day Bloopers
With the Labor Day holiday in the US, Steve Jones takes a break from writing and brings you a compilation of mistakes from the past few months.
One Milly-yon IOPS - Database Weekly (Sept 1, 2008)
IBM is testing a new hardware disk array that vastly outperforms any current arrays. What does this mean for the database world?
How To Use the Analysis Services Processing Task in SSIS 2005
We are looking to automate the processing of our SQL Server Analysis Services dimensions and cubes. We'd like to add this processing to our existing SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages which periodically update our data warehouse from our OLTP systems. Can you give us the details on how the Analysis Services Processing Task can be used in an SSIS package?
Two methods for converting T-SQL date/time values
Learn two built-in functions for SQL Server data conversion from T-SQL date/time values to character types. These methods include SQL Server CAST and CONVERT.
Blogs
Automatic Index Compaction
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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...
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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