Renewed as Microsoft MVP for 2020-2021
I have been fortunate enough to be renewed as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP for the calendar year July 2020 to June 2021. I’m honored, humbled, and thrilled that...
2020-07-17
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Blog Posts
Using LAST_QUERY_PLAN_STATS in SQL Server 2019
In my opinion, SQL Server 2019 is one of the greatest releases of the product that Microsoft has ever produced. The amount of improvements across the platform really allows...
2020-07-17
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COMING SOON - New Content
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Hey everyone. Long time no chat. I wanted to write this quick post to let you know why there haven't been any videos in...
2020-07-16
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COMING SOON - New Content
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Hey everyone. Long time no chat. I wanted to write this quick post to let you know why there haven't been any videos in...
2020-07-16
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COMING SOON – New Content
Hey everyone. Long time no chat. I wanted to write this quick post to let you know why there haven’t been any videos in a while. If you are...
2020-07-16
19 reads
Daily Coping 16 Jul 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-07-16
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Do More, With Less
Next week, July 22 and 23, I’ll be presenting at Redgate Summit. Summt is our smaller, focused sessions. This one is about the concept of how DevOps, or, more...
2020-07-16
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Getting the Proc Code–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I saw a question recently about getting the...
2020-07-16 (first published: 2020-07-06)
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The Manager’s Guide to Git Training for DBAs (Video / Podcast)
Learning Git can be daunting for DBAs. In this 20 minute episode, I discuss why learning a VCS is necessary for DBAs, then give three tips on scoping your...
2020-07-16 (first published: 2020-07-09)
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Daily Coping 15 Jul 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-07-15
14 reads
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