Speaking at the first Belgian SQLSaturday!
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be giving a session at the very first SQLSaturday (aka SQLSaturday 505) in Belgium....
2016-02-15
497 reads
Koen Verbeeck
Reblog: SSIS Performance Testing
I had to do some performance testing for an MSSQLTips article and I thought I’d share the framework I used in...
2016-02-19 (first published: 2016-02-12)
1,738 reads
The Future of SSMS
One of the smaller announcements amidst the gazillion new features of SQL Server 2016, is that SSMS is now a...
2016-02-03
628 reads
Book Review – Expert Performance Indexing
A few weeks back, the folks at Apress Publishing sent me a copy of the book Expert Performance Indexing in...
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
2,079 reads
Reblog: Building the Script Component
SQLKover update: For some reason, this was my most popular blog post on the old LTD site. Over 110,000 views. People...
2016-01-28
862 reads
Overview of Published Articles – 2015Q4
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the final quarter of 2015:
Integrated Logging with the Integration Services Package...
2016-01-22
500 reads
Book review – Extending SSIS with .NET Scripting
Recently I got my hands on a copy of Extending SSIS with .NET Scripting, written by SQL Server MVP Joost...
2016-01-29 (first published: 2016-01-21)
2,861 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #74: Be the Change
It’s the second Tuesday of the month and you know what that means! T-SQL Tuesday time! If you don’t know...
2016-01-20 (first published: 2016-01-12)
1,384 reads
Happy Holidays
It’s the time of the year again: the obligatory “how was the past year” blog post, combined with “what do...
2015-12-29
793 reads
Performance Tuning with sp_BlitzIndex
Just a small blog post about how I used sp_BlitzIndex for the first and how awesome that was. sp_BlitzIndex is one...
2015-12-10 (first published: 2015-12-07)
3,264 reads
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...
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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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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