DevOps and OSS Can Scale
Microsoft has embraced open source software, and has opened much of their code. They have also proven that DevOps development can scale in this environment.
Monitoring your servers and databases with SCOM and SQL Monitor
SCOM is good at monitoring the status of your servers. SQL Monitor give you a detailed view of your SQL Server instances, and databases, right across your network, however they are hosted. By using tools appropriately, for the tasks they do well, you benefit from a simpler and more comprehensive overall strategy.
SQL and T-SQL for Beginners in 229 minutes
The the basics of SQL and T-SQL in this short course of videos that explain some of the concepts.
Key findings from the State of SQL Server Monitoring
Microsoft MVP Grant Fritchey provides an insight into the key findings from the report; what is the biggest challenge facing database professionals this year? How are estates changing? And what technologies are being used across the industry? Read Grant’s blog to find out.
SQL Server and Excel Hierarchyid Example for Organization Charts
In this tip we look at how to build a hierarchy chart using the SQL Server hierarchyid data type and Excel to format the chart.
Parsing HTML to SQL using SQLDOM
It is simple to parse HTML directly to SQL, manipulate, and render back to HTML using SQLDOM
Politics makes for bad databases - plus calculate British holidays
In this piece, learn about changes in UK holidays and get a script to calculate them.
Ransomware and DevOps
Ransomware is becoming a bigger and bigger problem. Steve has some thoughts on how you should think about security in your database environment.
10 steps you can take to be compliant worldwide – free whitepaper
Learn how data protection legislation is changing around the world and the 10 steps database teams can take to ensure compliance and defend against data breaches.
Reporting Services Basics: Understanding Data Sources and Datasets
Data sources and datasets are critical components of an SSRS report, but many people new to SSRS struggle to understand them. In this article, Kathi Kellenberger shows you how to create these components and explains when they should be shared vs. embedded.
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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