Daily Coping 31 Aug 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...
2021-08-31
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Blog Posts
Expanded Button Formatting, New Spacing Controls, and Drag-and-Drop for List View Now in Block Editor
This month, our team released features in the block editor that give your site a little breathing room: spacing controls for buttons and paragraphs. And the List View tool...
2021-08-31
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Regular Expression Search & Replace in Visual Studio Code
Kind of a diversion into a Visual Studio Code/Azure Data Studio tip here (this works in both, as well as SQL Server Management Studio). I’m not a regular expression...
2021-08-31
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SQLCMD: Prevent an Entire Batch From Even Parsing With One Magical Character (Cruel Joke #4)
(last updated: 2021-09-01 @ 14:18 ET / 2021-09-01 @ 18:18 UTC ) In my previous post, SSMS and SQLCMD: Prevent T-SQL Batch From Not Only Executing, but Also From...
2021-08-31
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Allan Hirt presenting BC Foundations 31 Aug 2021
I’m thrilled to host Allan Hirt presenting an exciting session called “SQL Server Business Continuity Foundations” this Tuesday, August 31, at 10am Central time for our Microsoft Data Platform...
2021-08-30
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Daily Coping 30 Aug 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...
2021-08-30
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How I carved up 18TB of Storage
In a previous post I told you about how I got a Synology DS920+ on loan to play around with. The device comes with 4 drive bays so there...
2021-08-30 (first published: 2021-08-13)
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More Interactive Notebooks from MS Docs
I saw a note from Microsoft recently that they are trying to improve some of the support experiences for customers that are going through their docs. The idea is...
2021-08-30 (first published: 2021-08-11)
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Daily Coping 27 Aug 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...
2021-08-27
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Thoughts on a work/life balance – Spend Wisely : T-SQL Tuesday #141
Wow, it’s TSQL Tuesday again! Tjay Belt (blog|twitter) is our host this month and he’d like us to talk about ... Continue reading
2021-08-27 (first published: 2021-08-10)
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Blogs
AI Helps Me with My Sloppiness
By Steve Jones
I type fairly well. Well, I type fast, but I do wear out a...
WITH clause gets a 26ai boost!
By way of background, a while back I did video called “My New Favourite...
Automatic Index Compaction
By ReviewMyDB
Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
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