Admitting When You're Wrong
As a father of two head-strong boys (inherited trait), I struggle with getting them to admit they are wrong when they...
2010-01-15
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Blog Posts
PASS 2009 Speaker Evaluation Scores
Since quite a few PASS 2009 speakers have gone public with their speaker evaluation scores, I might as well do...
2010-01-15
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Presentations – Lessons Learned
This will be a very short entry. I just wanted to share a few things I learned very quickly while...
2010-01-15
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Recommend a Book I Should Read
I read a lot and like to think my interests are wide, but I fall into ruts all the same....
2010-01-15
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Scripting Indexes
I was recently reading a blog posting on BIDN, Scripting Indexes with Filters and schemas.In the posting the author explained...
2010-01-15
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SQL Lunch #8 recording
If you weren't able to attend tuesday for SQL Lunch you can watch the recording now mosted on the website. ...
2010-01-15
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SQL Lunch #8 recording
If you weren't able to attend tuesday for SQL Lunch you can watch the recording now mosted on the website. ...
2010-01-15
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SQL Server Waits and Queues
Recently, I was asked to do an extensive sql server performance audit and review. I will be sharing some of...
2010-01-15
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SQLServerCentral
My boss gave me an assignment, asking for 200 words on the history of SQLServerCentral. This is what I came...
2010-01-15
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Too Much Data – Idiocracy or Star Trek?
I used to think that too much data was never a bad thing. That having more information out there is...
2010-01-15
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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