TSQL Tuesday #150 Invite – Your first technical job
This month for TSQL Tuesday I’d like to hear about your first technical job(s). I know most DBAs don’t start ... Continue reading
2022-05-04 (first published: 2022-05-03)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 3 May 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...
2022-05-03
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TSQL Tuesday #150 Invite – Your first technical job
This month for TSQL Tuesday I’d like to hear about your first technical job(s). I know most DBAs don’t start ... Continue reading
2022-05-03
5 reads
A Monthly Running Total–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Recently I was looking at some data and...
2022-05-02 (first published: 2022-04-20)
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Daily Coping 2 May 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...
2022-05-02
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Microsoft Graph API in Power Automate: Registering the App in Azure
This video is one in a four-part series walking you through how to leverage the Microsoft Graph API within Power Automate. In this first video,
2022-05-02 (first published: 2022-04-19)
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Daily Coping 29 Apr 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...
2022-04-29
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How to Deploy Azure Logic Apps with ARM and Azure Devops
It’s easy to duplicate an Azure Logic App in a resource group, but unfortunately you cannot duplicate a Logic App between environments (you might try to copy paste the...
2022-04-29 (first published: 2022-04-21)
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Setting Up SQL Audit for STIG Compliance
Recently I spent months of my lift working on STIG and CIS compliance at my job and one of those tasks was setting up SQL Audit for STIG. Now,...
2022-04-29 (first published: 2022-04-18)
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Azure Redis Cache – Persistent Data
I mentioned before that you could use the idea of data persistency to rebuild your data from total failure. There are two types. RDB and AOF. RDB – persists...
2022-04-28
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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....
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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