Microsoft Azure – How to Check the availability of cloud services using PowerShell
Hello friends, in this blog we will learn how to check whether a cloud service is available to use with...
2017-08-21
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Microsoft Azure – How to create a virtual machine (VM) with Reserved Public IP (VIP)
In my previous blog, we learnt that a Virtual IP (VIP) get lost or changed when we stop or deallocate...
2017-08-11
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Limitation of Virtual IP address (VIP) in Microsoft Azure – Part 1
Virtual IP (VIP) is a public IP address and created when a cloud service is created. A VIP is a...
2017-08-07
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Azure – Storing all cmdlets in a file using Windows Azure PowerShell
Hello friends, windows Azure Powershell has a big library for Azure cmdlets which is very helpful in doing things without...
2017-08-04
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Connect to Microsoft Azure Subscription using Windows PowerShell – Part 2
In my previous blog we learnt to connect to Azure subscription by importing azure license setting file. In this blog...
2017-08-03
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Connect to Microsoft Azure Subscription using Windows PowerShell – Part 1
Hello friends, in this blog we will learn how we can connect to Azure Subscription using PowerShell. As you know...
2017-08-01
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How to attach a new data disk to Azure VM using Azure Portal
In this blog I will tell you how we can attach a data disk to an Azure Virtual Machine using...
2017-01-05
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How to backup local SQL database and restore to Azure SQL database
Hi friends, recently I was finding a way on taking backup of local database and restore that database to Azure...
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How to collected inventory for SQL Server using Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) tool
Hi friends, We need to collect inventory for database migration as well as platform to set up environment for migration,...
2016-09-30
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SQL Server Execution Plan Operator – Table Scan
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2016-09-28
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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