Adjusting Model
This Friday Steve Jones looks at the topic of defaults and whether you use the model database to adjust yours.
2015-09-04
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Editorials
The Case for Upgrading
When is it worth upgrading your SQL Server? It's a question Steve Jones explores today.
2015-09-03
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2015-09-02
758 reads
Software Estimates
It seems the software industry doesn't do a good job of planning and estimating software development efforts.
2015-09-01
193 reads
No More Foreign Keys?
Does it make sense to avoid FKs for use other architectures in software development? Steve Jones isn't sure a a general rule this is the case.
2015-08-31
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2015-08-31
296 reads
Why Use Version Control?
Steve Jones has a story about what it's like to work with, and without, Version Control Systems.
2015-08-24
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2015-08-20
190 reads
Your Portfolio
Putting together a portfolio allows you the chance to showcase what you're good at doing. Steve Jones thinks this might be a good thing for technical people.
2015-08-18
139 reads
Mission Critical Deployments
Is a software deployment responsible for a plane crash? That's a scary thought.
2015-08-17
128 reads
Blogs
AI Helps Me with My Sloppiness
By Steve Jones
I type fairly well. Well, I type fast, but I do wear out a...
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...
Forums
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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