Daily Coping 23 Nov 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...
2021-11-23
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Blog Posts
My book “Learn T-SQL from Scratch” is launched
A lot of my colleagues and people in my network reached out to me to train them on the SQL Server and T-SQL. They think that my style of...
2021-11-23
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My book “Learn T-SQL from Scratch” is launched
A lot of my colleagues and people in my network reached out to me to train them on the SQL Server and T-SQL. They think that my style of...
2021-11-23
19 reads
Tech Lunch News
Predminulý týden (10. listopadu 2021) jsme porádali už nekolikátý verejný Tech Lunch. Jde o pulhodinový call, na kterém pravidelne prezentujeme novinky ze sveta dat (datové sklady, Azure, SQL Server,...
2021-11-23
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Daily Coping 22 Nov 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...
2021-11-22
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Decoding SSRS Subscription Agent Jobs
Hello and welcome back… It has been a few months since I have published a blog post. More like 126 days, to be exact. Unfortunately, I have been dealing...
2021-11-22 (first published: 2021-11-16)
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Failover Groups for Managed Instances
If you have been following me for a while you will know that I really like the Fail over groups within Azure SQL DB and it is no different...
2021-11-22
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Reading Data from the Command Line in PowerShell–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. In every language I’ve coded in, there is...
2021-11-22
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SQL Server 2022 is coming
SQL Server 2022 is still in private preview (Microsoft MVP folks have access to it), but you can now read about the new release before it is released: SQL...
2021-11-22
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SQL Server 2022 is coming
SQL Server 2022 is still in private preview (Microsoft MVP folks have access to it), but you can now read about the new release before it is released: SQL...
2021-11-22
3 reads
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