Restarting SQL Server using a Batch Script
In a previous post, I showed you how one could Restart, Stop and Start the services for an instance of...
2010-08-29
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Blog Posts
Restarting SQL Server using the GUI
Sometimes you may need to restart your instance of SQL Server. You should rarely do this on Production boxes, but...
2010-08-29
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Jax Code Camp - My Presentation and Projects
First and foremost, I want to thank everyone who attended my presentation today. It got off to a late start due...
2010-08-28
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Microsoft Offers New Certification Exam Discount
If you are intending to take any Microsoft Certification tests soon, you are in luck, because Microsoft has recently introduced...
2010-08-28
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Connectify
It’s a wired world. You’d think by this point, most major hotels, at least those costing upwards of $100/night, would...
2010-08-27
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of August 30, 2010
The only scheduled event among the sources I have listed is the one for SQL Lunch, so it looks to...
2010-08-27
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Furniture Grade PVC – What Will You Make?
Ran across this in my weekly browsing, Formufit sells furniture grade PVC. I think I’m not quite clear on the...
2010-08-27
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Kent SqlServer UserGroup
I am now in the process of arranging the 2nd meeting of the kent sqlserver user group. This will be...
2010-08-27
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MDX Puzzle #6 - Solution
Puzzle #6 should not have presented too much of a challenge, it's intentions were to introduction you to the ORDER...
2010-08-27
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Presenting at Jacksonville Code Camp
I’m leaving later today for the not too bad drive to Jacksonville for the sixth annual Code Camp. I’ve got...
2010-08-27
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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...
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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