Daily Coping 22 Sep 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...
2020-09-22
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Blog Posts
Failing SQL Agent Jobs – Part 3
It is Tuesday!! Time for Part 3 in the series about SQL Server Agent Job Failures. This installment will show you how to setup SQL Agent Alerts and Operators...
2020-09-22 (first published: 2020-09-15)
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Recover database encrypted modules code with dbatools
This article was initially posted on SQLServerCentral @ 2020-08-18. It was interesting some comments I read about it, mainly why people still use WITH ENCRYPTION when it's simple to...
2020-09-22
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Better Productivity: Cycling the Windows Clipboard in Windows 10
A quick tip I learned, that has become handy for me. Tl;dr: Try Win+V Often I am moving lots of information between different applications. I might do some editing,...
2020-09-21
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Daily Coping 21 Sep 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...
2020-09-21
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Passing array of arrays as a parameter in Azure Data Factory and the role of an @item element in this
(2020-Sep-13) Array of arrays, in a JSON world, it’s a very common concept to have a set of sets of other elements in a dataset. Despite how strange it may...
2020-09-21 (first published: 2020-09-14)
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Prepping the local SSD D: in an Azure VM for SQL Server TempDB
One of the few good, safe uses for the local SSD D: volume of an Azure VM is for SQL Server TempDB data and log files. There's a gotcha....
2020-09-21 (first published: 2020-09-14)
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Daily Coping 18 Sep 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...
2020-09-18
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Failing SQL Agent Jobs – Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 in the series about SQL Server Agent Job Failures. In this part you are going to learn how to build an HTML report with Failed...
2020-09-18 (first published: 2020-09-10)
644 reads
Workload Replay for Azure SQL Database and Amazon RDS
Want to make sure you don’t have errors, validate performance, and save money while making changes with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server RDS in Amazon...
2020-09-18 (first published: 2020-09-11)
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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...
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