T-SQL Tuesday #84: Growing New Speakers
This month's #tsql2sday is being hosted by Andy Yun (b|t) and is about helping new speakers.
I have only been speaking...
2016-11-08
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T-SQL Tuesday 84 - Growing New Speakers
This month's #tsql2sday is being hosted by Andy Yun (b|t) and is about helping new speakers.
I have only been speaking...
2016-11-08
224 reads
Ponderings of PASS Summit 2016
Got back from Summit on Saturday and I’m still totally in the moment. I came back with so many new...
2016-11-03
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Ponderings of PASS Summit 2016
Got back from Summit on Saturday and I’m still totally in the moment. I came back with so many new...
2016-11-03
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Convert User Friendly Retention to DateTime value with PowerShell
I think the title is fairly descriptive so let me put a little context around it for you. In my...
2016-10-25
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Convert User Friendly Retention to DateTime value with PowerShell
I think the title is fairly descriptive so let me put a little context around it for you. In my...
2016-10-25
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Who owns your availability groups?
Question: Who owns your availability groups?
The person who creates the AG becomes the owner by default. Did you know that...
2016-10-20
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Who owns your availability groups?
Question: Who owns your availability groups?
The person who creates the AG becomes the owner by default. Did you know that...
2016-10-20
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T-SQL Tuesday #83: How are we still dealing with the same problems?
#TSQL2SDAY is a monthly blog party hosted by a different blogger each month. This blog party was started by Adam...
2016-10-11
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T-SQL Tuesday 83 - How are we still dealing with the same problems?
#TSQL2SDAY is a monthly blog party hosted by a different blogger each month. This blog party was started by Adam...
2016-10-11
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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