Daily Coping 10 Nov 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...
2020-11-10
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 10 Nov 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 adding my responses for each day here. Today's tip is to add the word "yet" when you feel you can't do something. This is good advice because […]
2020-11-10
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Migrating SSIS to Azure – an Overview
For quite some time now, there’s been the possibility to lift-and-shift your on-premises SSIS project to Azure Data Factory. There, they run in an Integration Runtime, a cluster of...
2020-11-10 (first published: 2020-11-03)
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Notes on the 2020 PASS Virtual Summit – Part 2
Writing most of this Monday afternoon while on lunch break. I’m attending the Advanced T-SQL Querying and Query Tuning pre-con by Itzik Ben-Gan. You access pre-cons via the Virtual...
2020-11-10
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SQL Homework – November 2020 – Help!
If you ask any senior IT person What is the most important tool you have? there is a decent chance that ... Continue reading
2020-11-10 (first published: 2020-11-03)
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The rule of three, SQL Server on Linux edition
When it comes to Microsoft products, the rule of three — at least as far as I’m concerned — is where you can accomplish the same task in three...
2020-11-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #132: How Are You Coping with Pandemic?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party in the SQL Community and this month is hosted by Taiob Ali (b | t) and it’s about a topic I could...
2020-11-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #132: How Are You Coping with Pandemic?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party in the SQL Community and this month is hosted by Taiob Ali (b | t) and it’s about a topic I could...
2020-11-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #132: How Are You Coping with Pandemic?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party in the SQL Community and this month is hosted by Taiob Ali (b | t) and it’s about a topic I could...
2020-11-10
19 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #132: How Are You Coping with Pandemic?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party in the SQL Community and this month is hosted by Taiob Ali (b | t) and it’s about a topic I could...
2020-11-10
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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