Daily Coping 22 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-22
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Blog Posts
Register as a Pre-Con Speaker
I’ve been debating how we better organize speaker resources and one of the things I proposed was a pre-con registry of speakers. I did so at the sqlsaturday blog....
2022-07-22 (first published: 2022-07-13)
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SQLServerCarpenter Tools
Over the past couple of years, I’ve developed several tools that I’ve been using during my Performance Tuning and other related assignments. I thought to share it with the...
2022-07-22 (first published: 2022-07-11)
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Daily Coping 21 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-21
24 reads
SSMS Put pinned tabs in their own row
A while back (6 years ago 😲) I talked about how you can change the behavior of SSMS so that ... Continue reading
2022-07-21
124 reads
#PowershellBasics: Expanding the column width to avoid truncation
I was recently asked to get a list of all of the services running on one of the boxes we ... Continue reading
2022-07-20 (first published: 2022-07-07)
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Daily Coping 20 Jun 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-20
22 reads
Power BI as a enterprise data warehouse solution?
With Power BI continuing to get many great new features, including the latest in Datamarts (see my blog Power BI Datamarts), I’m starting to hear customers ask “Can I...
2022-07-20 (first published: 2022-06-30)
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#PowershellBasics: Multi-line commands
When I’m sharing code one of the things I hate most is having a scroll bar along the bottom. I ... Continue reading
2022-07-19
110 reads
Daily Coping 19 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-19
12 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...
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