2022 State of PostgreSQL Survey
Hello all. I know most of you are still working within SQL Server. However, a few of you are become more like me, hybrid data managers, working in more...
2022-06-13
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 13 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...
2022-06-13
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dbatools - Rich Datatypes
Some datatypes can be shown in so many different forms (think measurament units, dates with short/long forms, or regional settings) that can be difficult to have a standard. What...
2022-06-13 (first published: 2022-06-02)
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Why You (usually) Want a Clustered Index
Note: I originally wrote this a few years ago but never posted it. It resurfaced when I migrated the blog so it’s being posted now.
After watching Kevin Kline’s (blog...
2022-06-13 (first published: 2022-05-16)
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Daily Coping 10 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...
2022-06-10
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Running dynamic SQL in a different database
This is one of those things that on hindsight was a stupid problem, but still cost me hours and a ... Continue reading
2022-06-10 (first published: 2022-05-19)
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VMware & SQL Server 823-824 alerts
We’ve been tracking a weird state with SQL Server virtual machines on VMware and possible warnings on database corruption while VM backups are running, largely centered around (but not...
2022-06-10 (first published: 2022-05-18)
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Azure VM Scale Sets
I really like scale sets. It lets you create and manage up to 1000 load balanced VMs per availability zone using windows or Linux images. (We can have flexible...
2022-06-09
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Daily Coping 9 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...
2022-06-09
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Beer, Brats, and Databases at DataGrillen 2022
Last week I attended DataGrillen 2022 in Lingen, Germany. This was my first time at this event, and I had a wonderful time. This despite the fact that I...
2022-06-08
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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...
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...
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