SSRS Mobile Reports – JSON error
Just a quick blog post about an error I recently encountered when trying to create a mobile report for SSRS...
2016-09-14
699 reads
Koen Verbeeck
Bigger Fact Table for Wide World Importers
Microsoft released a new sample database a couple of months back: Wide World Importers. It’s quite great: not every (unnecessary...
2016-08-22 (first published: 2016-08-12)
3,135 reads
Webinar – What’s new in SSIS 2016
I’ll be giving a webinar on the new features of Integration Services 2016.
When? August 11, 2016
Where? On the MSSQLTips.com website. You...
2016-07-28
822 reads
An update on AutoAdjustBufferSize in SSIS 2016
This week SQL Server 2016 Cumulative Update 1 was released and it contains a lot of updates/fixes for SSIS, SSAS,...
2016-07-27
2,957 reads
Overview of Published Articles – 2016Q2
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the second quarter of 2016, which were all focused on the...
2016-07-22
486 reads
Slidedeck ITPROceed – Power BI Status Update
I uploaded my slidedeck from the ITPROceed event to Docs.com. For the abstract, see the blog post Speaking about Power...
2016-06-28
533 reads
My first SQL Server 2016 POC
Very, very recently I did my first Proof Of Concept (POC) with SQL Server 2016. At an actual client of...
2016-06-14 (first published: 2016-06-09)
4,739 reads
Conditional Formatting and Quick Calcs in Power BI Desktop
There’s a new update out of Power BI Desktop (May 2016), but at the time of writing there’s no official...
2016-06-07 (first published: 2016-05-31)
2,753 reads
Reblog: Unexpected result with the File System Task
SQLKover update: nowadays you would probably use package parameters to pass the directory value. However, they still have a default...
2016-06-03 (first published: 2016-05-24)
1,179 reads
Speaking about Power BI @ ITPROceed 2016
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be giving a session at this year’s ITPROceed. For those who don’t know this...
2016-05-19
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Blogs
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...
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
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