Saving Game Data with Unity
One of the most critical things that a game must do is to save data like the preferences and score. In this article, Lance Talbert demonstrates two ways to save data when you create your game in Unity.
Azure Data Factory Triggers
This article explains the difference between schedule Trigger and Tumbling window Trigger in Azure Data Factor V2 (ADF V2) and how they behave on success and failure.
Self-selection Reteaming: It’s Not Crazy, It’s the Future
Today, Kendra Little talks about reteaming.
PASS Summit 2020
PASS Summit is the must-attend conference for Microsoft data professionals; delivering 3 full days of technical training on data architecture, management, and analytics. Get the skills you need with in-depth sessions created and led by industry experts. Network and problem-solve with peers and Microsoft engineers, and get ahead of the curve with spotlight sessions on today’s hot topics. Join Redgate and the PASS community in Houston on November 10 - 13 to future-proof your data career.
Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis: Introduction
Microsoft provides a service to analyze text data called Text Analytics Cognitive Service. In this article, Sanil Mhatre demonstrates how to use this service from Power BI.
Why you Should Always Specify Whether a Column Accepts Nulls
Phil Factor explains the factors that determine whether a column will allow null values, if you don't specify it explicitly in the column definition. If you rely on the default behavior established by your connection settings, you could be in for some nasty surprises.
Configure SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption with PowerShell
Transparent Data Encryption is way to protect the data in your SQL Server database. This can be setup using T-SQL, SSMS and using PowerShell.
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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