Bill Baker - Database Weekly (Aug 11, 2008)
This weeks Database Weekly looks at a longtime leader for the Microsoft SQL Server development team leaving the company.
Bill Baker - Database Weekly (Aug 11, 2008)
This weeks Database Weekly looks at a longtime leader for the Microsoft SQL Server development team leaving the company.
Mastering OLAP Reports: Parameterizing Number of “Top” Items with the MDX TopCount() Function, Part I
Writing high-performance reports against Analysis Services cubes means learning MDX to some extent. Parameterization of MDX functions is one of those things that cannot be delivered solely via graphical MDX Editor. BI Architect Bill Pearson demonstrates a way to parameterize the highly useful TopCount() function.
Processing XML Showplans Using SQLCLR in SQL Server 2005
Build an application to extract a query's estimated execution cost from its XML showplan. Users can submit only those queries costing less than a predetermined threshold to a server running SQL Server 2005, thereby ensuring it is not overloaded with costly, long-running queries.
Viewing Analysis Services Data in Excel 2007 - SQL School Video
Excel is a wonderful tool for examining the data in your SSAS cubes. MVP Brian Knight shows how you can access the data in Analysis Services or a SQL Server database from Excel 2007.
Calculating Mathematical Values in SQL Server
In our application we have the need to perform mathematical calculations. Right now we are doing so in our front end application. Unfortunately we are starting to experience performance problems with large data sets and differences in calculations due to developers using different logic. We are seeking some other options to perform the calculations. Does SQL Server perform basic mathematical calculations?
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 27 - Implementing Basic Service Broker Objects
Marcin Policht explains the interaction of the primary elements of Service Broker's asynchronous messaging framework and describes a process of setting up the database objects necessary to demonstrate their sample implementation (which will be the subject of our next article).
Share Database Knowledge with Office and SQL Server
Longtime SQL Server expert Bill Wunder has written a very interesting article on how to share knowledge among IT staff using the tools you already have in your organization.
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
How We Handled a Vendor Retry That Loaded Twice in Snowflake
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How We Handled a Vendor...
Cognitive Coverage
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Cognitive Coverage
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