A Month of PowerShell – Day 5 (Scripting – Putting it together)
Welcome to Day 5 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-05
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A Discussion of SQL Server-Related Topics
Invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #39 – Can you shell what the PoSH is Cooking?
T-SQL Tuesday Party History
In case you’ve been hiding out in the desert, oblivious to all that goes on, there is...
2013-02-08 (first published: 2013-02-05)
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 4 (Scripting)
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2013-02-04
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 3 (Security)
Welcome to Day 3 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-03
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 2 (Variables and Operators)
Welcome to Day 2 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-02
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 1 (Getting Started)
Welcome to Day 1 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. PowerShell is one of those things that I know...
2013-02-01
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Adding new data files to a log shipped database
I ran into an interesting problem recently. There is a 4TB database that is log shipped to a DR site,...
2013-01-28 (first published: 2013-01-21)
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T-SQL Tuesday #38 – Standing Firm
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Jason Brimhall. Being as this is January, lots of people are making New...
2013-01-08
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Ghost Cleanup process
I’ve been digging deeper into the Ghost Cleanup process recently, and quite naturally my quest lead to Paul Randal’s blog....
2012-12-17
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TSQL Tuesday #37 – Joins and Implicit Conversions
Here we are at TSQL Tuesday #37 – the start of the fourth year. Sebastian Meine (@sqlity / blog) is hosting this...
2012-12-11
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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...
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...
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