Daily Coping 27 Dec 2021
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...
2021-12-27
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Tech Lunch News
8. prosince jsme se opet sešli u obeda nad novinkami ze sveta dat. Je super, že se stále více úcastní i lidé mimo JC – jsme rádi, že se...
2021-12-27 (first published: 2021-12-19)
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Daily Coping 24 Dec 2021
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...
2021-12-24
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Getting Started with the Advent of Code as a #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. If you want to get started blogging, or...
2021-12-24 (first published: 2021-12-08)
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Power BI DAX Getting the Value of Previous Non-NULL Row
If you are an avid report designer or user, you may have wanted to see the percent difference between one row and the previous one. Sounds easy right? Well...
2021-12-24 (first published: 2021-12-15)
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Daily Coping 23 Dec 2021
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...
2021-12-23
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Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server – A new beginning
Imagine getting SA (sysadmin) access to your RDS SQL Server Instance! Well, that was not possible in the past, but during AWS re:Invent 2021, Amazon RDS Custom for SQL...
2021-12-22 (first published: 2021-12-08)
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Daily Coping 22 Dec 2021
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...
2021-12-22
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SQLFAMILY Folding@Home Makes Top 100 Team
Back in March 2020 Glenn Berry created the #SQLFamily Folding@Home team and many of us joined in donating compute cycles to helping find a cure for various diseases to...
2021-12-22 (first published: 2021-12-12)
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Daily 21 Dec 2021
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...
2021-12-21
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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