A Complex Database Project in Visual Studio SSDT
One Way to Handle a Very Complex Database Project with Several Databases and Cross References
Database Source Control Workshop - London, UK
Redgate's workshops are coming to London on July 8, 2015. In this workshop, you'll learn how to source control your database, deploy your databases from source control, and monitor and track database changes across development, testing, and production environments. Register while space is available.
Testing SQL Server Backup Performance with Trace Flag 3042
Starting with SQL Server 2008 a new feature which allowed us to create compressed backup files by pre-allocating space. This tip will look at the performance impacts of disabling pre-allocation of space using the 3042 SQL Server trace flag.
Awareness
This week Steve Jones looks back at the T-SQL Tuesday blog part and its theme of monitoing.
Testing Simple Calculations and UDFs with tSQLt
This article will give you a basic look at how you can test your user defined functions with the tSQLt framework.
Documenting your SQL Server Database
One of the shocks that a developer can get when starting to program in T-SQL is that there is no simple way of generating documentation for routines, structures and interfaces, in the way that Javadocs or Doxygen provides. To embed the documentation in the source is so obvious and easy that it is a wrench to be without this facility. Phil Factor suggests a solution.
SQL Saturday #407 - Vancouver
SQL Saturday is coming to Vancouver, British Columbia on June 27 2015. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. Register while space is available.
Searching for Plans
Would you want a query optimizer that searches for the best plan for your code? Steve Jones thinks this might not be a bad idea.
Automated Database Deployment Workshop: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Redgate's DLM Workshops are coming to Belfast, NI on June 26, 2015. Learn how to: deploy databases using Redgate's DLM tools, assess the different requirements of production and non-production deployments, and handle database administration tasks, such as backups and security, for automated deployment. Register while space is available.
Automating Day-to-Day PowerShell Admin Tasks - Jobs and Workflow
If you are aiming to optimise the use of your time by doing as much as possible via scripting, you will soon want to run scripts in parallel to save time. PowerShell does not demand that you run jobs one after the other; It has the means to launch actions whenever you wish and to obtain the results when you want them.
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
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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