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Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Explaining the Architecture Through System Views
The architecture of Azure SQL Data Warehouse isn't easy to explain briefly, but if you have some useful queries that access the management and catalog views, and diagrams that show how they relate together, you can very quickly get a feel for what is going on under the hood. By using and extending these queries that use these views, you can check on a variety waits, blocking, status, table distribution and data movement in ASDW.
Analysis Services Lives On
The release of Analysis Services in Azure means the platform has a future.
Reading Backup History Information for a Database
There are times when you might want to read backup/restore history information to identify a backup’s start and finish date/time, the location where the backup was written, the size of the database backup, etc. Greg Larsen shows you how to do this in SQL Server.
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Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey that looks at emotions and how they can affect our decision making.
Learning SQL Server 2016
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Visualize the timeline of your SQL jobs using Google graph and email
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Dummies Guide for a SQL Server Presentation
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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