Project Phoenix: Late August Awards Announced
Two more eligible developers and deserving projects have been selected. Any proposals submitted but not selected this time will be...
2010-08-31
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Blog Posts
Replication Gotcha - Including An Article In Multiple Publications
When administering replication topologies it's common to group articles into publications based on roles that subscribers fulfill. Often you'll have...
2010-08-31
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Return top 20 queries by Average CPU
I’ve recently used this when troubleshooting some unexplained high CPU load on my server:
select top 20st.objectid, st.dbid, total_worker_time/execution_count AS AverageCPUTime,CASE statement_end_offsetWHEN -1...
2010-08-31
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SELECT, Deconstructed
Today let’s expand on the logical processing order of SELECT that I mentioned in last week’s N Things Worth Knowing...
2010-08-31
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SQL Saturday #48 - Columbia - Call for Speakers Ending
This is a reminder for those who might be considering submitting a session but haven't yet. The call for speakers...
2010-08-31
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SQLRally Pre-Con Selection Process – Draft for Comment
Hopefully you’ve heard by now that PASS is launching a new event format called SQLRally in May 2011 in Orlando....
2010-08-31
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Unique and non-unique non-clustered indexes on a unique clustered index
In the last weblog
post I have talked about the difference of unique and non-unique clustered indexes.
As you have seen SQL...
2010-08-31
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Convert Several Columns in SSIS With Fewer Clicks and Confusion
I've had this one in my toolbox for a while now, decided to publish it on CodePlex a while back,...
2010-08-30
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Defensive Db Programming Chapter 06
We are here again after another week and ready for another episode in this series. Today we get to talk...
2010-08-30
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Hardware Performance Research
I am trying to gather some information about some of the newer Intel and AMD processors as part of my...
2010-08-30
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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