Enjoying a Down Weekend
Steve is looking for entertainment suggestions after the Oscar nominations were released.
Installing R packages in SQL Server R Services
This article shows four ways you can use when installing missing R packages for Microsoft R Services.
The 2019 Data Professional Salary Survey Results
How much do database administrators, analysts, architects, developers, and data scientists make? We asked, and 882 of you from 46 countries answered this year. Y’all make a total of $84,114,940 USD per year! Hot diggety. (And at first glance, it looks like on average, y’all got raises this year.)
Cyber Insecurity in Pakistan
Journalist Alamzeb Khan discusses recent security breaches in Pakistan that have affected millions of people and accounts.
An Introduction to RLS Security Policies: Level 3 of the Stairway to Row-Level Security
An introduction to how security policies work for RLS.
Cleanup SQL Server Query Store Data After Database Restore
In this tip we look at how to cleanup the SQL Server query store after a database has been restored to ensure that query store starts data collection starts fresh.
SSRS Scale Out with Standard Edition Containers and Instances
Learn how to use database cloning to scale out your reporting services workload.
Overview of Azure SQL Database Performance Monitoring
Transitioning to the Platform-as-a-Service model typically implies relinquishing certain degree of control over your computing environment. One of the primary concerns related to this transition is diminished level of transparency providing insights into performance of cloud-resident workloads. Fortunately, with Azure SQL Database, you have a wide range of options that address this concern, allowing you to identify and remediate overwhelming majority of performance-related issues.
Blogs
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Automatic Index Compaction
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Forums
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