Clearing the Bar - MP3
How do you decide who gets hired? Do you get the best candidate? Steve Jones says that most of us don't necessarily hire the best person that applies for a variety of reasons.
2008-01-14
60 reads
Steve Jones
- Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball
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- Website: https://www.voiceofthedba.com
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Clearing the Bar - WMV
How do you decide who gets hired? Do you get the best candidate? Steve Jones says that most of us don't necessarily hire the best person that applies for a variety of reasons.
2008-01-14
49 reads
A Little Variety - iPod
Do we really need to corner the market for our particular business? Steve Jones talks about the need to grow your business at the expense of others.
2008-01-13
293 reads
Digital Storage - iPod
Digital technologies have made the transfer of information easier than ever, but what about it's long term storage? That doesn't seem to be as easy as we might think.
2008-01-13
46 reads
Digital Storage - MP3
Digital technologies have made the transfer of information easier than ever, but what about it's long term storage? That doesn't seem to be as easy as we might think.
2008-01-13
59 reads
Digital Storage - WMV
Digital technologies have made the transfer of information easier than ever, but what about it's long term storage? That doesn't seem to be as easy as we might think.
2008-01-13
51 reads
Keynotes - iPod
This Friday we look forward to the various tech events of 2008 and which speakers you think are worth seeing.
2008-01-13
40 reads
Keynotes - WMV
This Friday we look forward to the various tech events of 2008 and which speakers you think are worth seeing.
2008-01-13
49 reads
Losing Your Job (iPod)
It's not easy to lose your job, but it can be done if you aren't performing. What concerns Steve Jones is someone recently lost their job for their behavior on their own personal time.
2008-01-13
306 reads
The Weekly Editorial - iPod
Our weekly commentary on SQL Server news and notes from the week ending 1/12/08.
2008-01-13
45 reads
Blogs
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The Goldilocks problem – Materialized Views
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Forums
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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