The Green Stuff
Money. It's part of the reason why we all work, though hopefully not all of it. Steve Jones comments a bit on financial matters.
2008-06-16
46 reads
Articles
The Green Stuff
Money. It's part of the reason why we all work, though hopefully not all of it. Steve Jones comments a bit on financial matters.
2008-06-16
38 reads
The Green Stuff
Money. It's part of the reason why we all work, though hopefully not all of it. Steve Jones comments a bit on financial matters.
2008-06-16
51 reads
Do You Want to Be Right?
Steve Jones talks about being right versus being effective in your IT work.
2008-06-14
43 reads
Do You Want to Be Right?
Steve Jones talks about being right versus being effective in your IT work.
2008-06-14
30 reads
Do You Want to Be Right?
Steve Jones talks about being right versus being effective in your IT work.
2008-06-14
32 reads
The Database Weekly Update for June 16, 2008
Steve Jones looks back at the news of the past, including a look at RC0, the latest release of SQL Server 2008.
2008-06-14
164 reads
The Database Weekly Update for June 16, 2008
Steve Jones looks back at the news of the past, including a look at RC0, the latest release of SQL Server 2008.
2008-06-14
202 reads
The Database Weekly Update for June 16, 2008
Steve Jones looks back at the news of the past, including a look at RC0, the latest release of SQL Server 2008.
2008-06-14
212 reads
Eliminating Cursors
T-SQL does some things wonderfully, but cursors are the bane of the language, often causing performance issues. Changing your queries around to remove cursors can be tricky and new author Kamran Ali brings us one technique he has used to dramatically improve performance.
2008-06-13 (first published: 2006-01-17)
55,173 reads
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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