T-SQL Tuesday #61 – Giving Back
The Season of Giving
The annual PASS Summit (otherwise known as the #SQLFamily reunion) is over. Here in the United States,...
2014-12-08 (first published: 2014-12-02)
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A Discussion of SQL Server-Related Topics
The Murder Train is making a stop in Salt Lake City
You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get...
2014-10-16
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The Murder Train chugs into Denver!
You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get...
2014-08-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #57: SQL Family and Community
Well, here it is again. The second Tuesday of the month, which means that it’s T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday… that...
2014-08-13
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The Murder train chugs into Raleigh
You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get...
2014-08-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #56: Assumptions
Well, here it is again. The second Tuesday of the month, which means that it’s T-SQL Tuesday. This month, Dev...
2014-07-08
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Avoiding a split brain in database mirroring
You’re utilizing the database mirroring high-availability feature, configured to be in the High Safety mode with automatic failover, which means...
2014-05-28 (first published: 2014-05-22)
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Cannot start SSAS after install in tabular mode
After installing SSAS, using the tabular model, you receive the error “The service cannot be started: The following system error...
2014-05-19 (first published: 2014-05-13)
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SQL Saturday RVA recap
Wow, what a month. On March 22, 2014, the SQL Saturday train came into Richmond VA (RVA). I was one...
2014-03-28
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Presenting at the kickoff Lynchburg Va SQL User Group meeting
There’s a new SQL Server user group starting up over in Lynchburg, VA. It’s first meeting is February 27, 2014...
2014-02-17
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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!
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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