Reducing the Frequency of SQL Server Central Newsletters
We are reducing the sending of the SQL Server Central newsletter to three days a week.
2021-04-30 (first published: 2021-04-26)
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SQL Server Central
Do You Still Want Coping Tips?
A simple question, and you can vote by leaving a comment for this article. Do you still want me to include the coping tips in the newsletter after June? When the pandemic shut down much of the world in March, our CEO at Redgate Software asked us to think about what we could do to […]
2020-06-16
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Forum FAQ
With the implementation of the BBPress forums at SQLServerCentral, a few community members have asked how the forums work and how to best use them. This document will address a few of the items that have been asked by users. A list of questions is followed by the answers below. If you have additional questions […]
2020-05-15
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Blocking Private Messages
A new feature on SQLServerCentral to allow you more control over who can contact you.
2019-12-30
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SQLServerCentral v3 coming tomorrow
The next version of SQLServerCentral will go love on Saturday, March 30, 2019
2019-03-29
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Call for Articles
SQLServerCentral is looking for articles on a few topics. Read more to find out how to submit a draft.
2016-08-19 (first published: 2016-08-12)
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2015-11-09
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SQLServerCentral Runs sp_Blitz - The Future
After examining the SQLServerCentral servers using the sp_Blitz™ script, Steve Jones now looks at how we will use the script moving forward.
2015-04-30
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SQL Cop and SQLServerCentral
Steve Jones runs the SQL Cop tests against the SQLServerCentral database and looks at the results.
2015-03-23
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A Call for Questions
Our Question of the day is very popular, but we're looking for more complex questions
2014-09-08
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Blogs
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
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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