Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science – Continued
A couple of weeks back I blogged about my progress in the “Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science” curriculum. I’ve...
2017-06-27 (first published: 2017-06-19)
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Koen Verbeeck
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Where’s the Trend Line in Power BI Desktop?
A quick blog post on finding where the trend line is hiding in Power BI Desktop. Docs will state it...
2017-06-20 (first published: 2017-06-13)
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Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science – The Road So Far
I’ve currently been participating in the Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science. It’s an online curriculum of MOOCs (Massive Open...
2017-05-26
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Power BI Announcements Summary
It was a crazy week for Power BI. There were quite a lot of announcements, so I’ll try to wrap...
2017-05-05
1,377 reads
Book Review – The Truthful Art
I’m participating in the #vizBookClub, a great idea by the data visualization community. In short, we read a book about...
2017-04-28 (first published: 2017-04-21)
1,282 reads
PASS BA Marathon – Spring Edition Q&A
The PASS BA Marathon Spring Edition was quite a success. A lot of people tuned in (over 400), the webinar...
2017-04-19
755 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #89 – The times they are a-changing
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by yours truly! The topic this month: how do you keep up with the...
2017-04-19 (first published: 2017-04-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday 89 – Roundup
I asked the SQL Server community to write about their experience/opinion about the changing world we live in and how...
2017-04-18
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T-SQL Tuesday #89 Invitation – The times they are a-changing
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party for the SQL Server community (or Microsoft Data Platform community. Although it’s called...
2017-04-04
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T-SQL Tuesday #88 – The daily (database-related) WTF
It’s the time of the month again: the T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s edition is hosted by Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan (blog|twitter) and...
2017-03-14
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Blogs
AI Helps Me with My Sloppiness
By Steve Jones
I type fairly well. Well, I type fast, but I do wear out a...
WITH clause gets a 26ai boost!
By way of background, a while back I did video called “My New Favourite...
Automatic Index Compaction
By ReviewMyDB
Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
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