2013-02-13 (first published: 2013-01-25)
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Find Single use plans in Plan Cache
This script will return all the Adhoc Single use Plans currently in your Plan Cache.
It also excludes Plan Shells created from auto/forced parameterization. Works for 2005/2008
2012-12-11 (first published: 2012-11-26)
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List all tables without LOB columns
Lists all the tables in a database that do not contain any LOB columns(text, ntext, image, varchar (max), nvarchar (max), varbinary (max) and xml).
Useful when rebuilding indexes online.
2011-08-30 (first published: 2011-08-25)
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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