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Using DMVs to Find the Ports that SQL Server is Listening On
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Certificate Based Application Roles
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Using DMVs to Find the Ports that SQL Server is Listening On
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2010-11-29
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How Do I Change SSRS Report Credentials with Powershell?
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2010-11-24
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Want to Make Your SQL Server Run Faster for Free?
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Get Drive Space Including Mount Points
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Get Drive Space Including Mount Points
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2010-11-15
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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