Article of the Week – Sanjay Mirsha (Data Compression)
Data Compression was introduced in SQL Server 2008. This feature helps compress data inside the database, thus potentially reducing the...
2009-11-10
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Patrick LeBlanc
New Job with Pragmatic Works
Well if you attended PASS, you already know that I am changing jobs. I recently accepted a position with Pragmatic...
2009-11-09
673 reads
Today’s SQL Lunch – Understanding and Preventing SQL Injection with Kevin Kline
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Click the above Meeting URL around 11:00 AM CST on 10/12/2009...
2009-11-09
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PASS Presentation Rehearsal
My friend Trevor Barkhouse called me up a couple of nights ago and asked if I could host a Live...
2009-10-30
1,582 reads
SQLLunch – Accidental DBA and Performance Data Collector
If you haven’t had a chance to attend the SQL Lunch Live Meeting learning series then sign in Monday at...
2009-10-23
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Wildcard – Match One Character using Underscore (_)
I was recently contacted by a developer with what I would consider to be a very simple question. How do...
2009-10-21
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SQL Saturday #21 Orlando – Recap
This past weekend I had the pleasure of not only attending, but speaking at SQL Saturday in Orlando, FL. When...
2009-10-19
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MSDE – Database Size Limit
Most of you are aware that the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) limits database size to 2 gigabytes. ...
2009-10-13
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SQL Server Lunch Milestone (100+ Attendees)
Today’s SQL Lunch was a huge success, even though we experienced a few technical difficulties. Tim Mitchell spoke on Deploying...
2009-10-12
776 reads
Baton Rouge October SQL Server User Group
Last night I presented, Monitoring Disk Space using CLR, to the Baton Rouge Area SQL Server User Group. There were...
2009-10-09
730 reads
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...
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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