Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
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Blog Posts
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
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Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
10 reads
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
5 reads
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
8 reads
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
5 reads
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
5 reads
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
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Daily Coping 31 Dec 2020
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...
2020-12-31
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End of an Era – SQL PASS and Lessons learned
Most of my blog is filled with posts related to PASS in some way. Events, various volunteering opportunities, keynote blogging, this or that…With the demise of the organization, I...
2020-12-31 (first published: 2020-12-22)
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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