SQL Server Object Dependency Viewer Revisited
A year ago I blogged about building a SQL Server 2008 Object Dependency Viewer based on a script by PowerShell...
2010-08-07
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Chad Miller
Quickly Script Out Replication Redux
Dave Levy (Blog|Twitter) posted a script in a blog post in which he uses a bit of SQL PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX)...
2010-08-03
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Making A SQLPS Module
If you’re working with PowerShell and SQL Server one of things you’ll want to to do is load the SQL...
2010-07-10
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Windows Search Enable Your Script Files
At the July 8th Tampa PowerShell User Group meeting, Ed Wilson (blog|twitter) gave a presentation on “PowerShell Best Practices.” One...
2010-07-10
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Scripting Linked Servers
A co-worked asked me to look at a T-SQL script I had written 8 years ago for scripting out linked...
2010-07-06
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Building A Remote Desktop Manager Cluster List
The Microsoft Clustering and High Availablity bloggers have taken noticed of the Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) utility from a...
2010-06-30
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PowerShell ETL Presentation
My thanks to everyone in attendence and PASS AppDev VC for inviting me to speak. I’ll post a link to...
2010-06-23
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Live Meeting Presentation – ETL with PowerShell
On Tuesday June 22nd 9 PM Eastern I”m presenting ETL with PowerShell for PASS AppDev VC—a virtual chapter of Professional...
2010-06-20
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Building A Remote Desktop Manager Connection List
Remote Desktop Connection Manager or RDCMan is a free download from Microsoft for managing multiple remote desktop connections. The functionality...
2010-06-15
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SQLIse A PowerShell SQL Server Query Tools Gets an Update
After the first release of SQLIse (“SQL Ice”)--a basic IDE for T-SQL that includes ability to edit, execute, parse, format...
2010-06-04
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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