SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Integration Services - Managing Remote Processes Using Script Task
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SQL Validation Functions - 4 Cool UDF's to have handy
Everyone knows that in SQL 2000, yes 2000, Microsoft jumped aboard the bandwagon of other platforms, and gave the developers...
You Don't Know Enough
We never know enough ourselves to be sure that we have completely thought through all the scenarios or holes in our logic. This is why it makes sense for us to have a group that spends time looking for problems.
NULLIF
Do you use NULLIF? For me, this command has been seldom used. Because of that, I have been dabbling with...
SQL Saturday #73 - Orange County, CA
A free one day training event on Apr 9, 2011 in Huntington Beach, CA. Come learn about SQL Server with a number of SQL Server experts.
Using PowerShell to Manage SQLServer
This article provides a practical example of how Powershell can be used by DBAs.
ERDDUG - Introduction to Indexes with SQL Server MVP Gail Shaw
If you are in South Africa near East Rand, join the East Rand Developer and DBA group on April 9 for a presentation by SQL Server expert, MVP, and longtime SQLServerCentral author, Gail Shaw.
How To Fix Connect
Today Steve Jones asks for your ideas on Microsoft's Connect. It's a good way to submit bugs and suggestions, but it seems to suffer from a scale problem. What do you think would help?
Industrial-strength database documentation using Extended Properties
To finish this short series on extended properties a look at documenting sets of database objects
Change SQL Startup Parameters with PowerShell
Sometimes when we’re trying to track down a problem and looking through SQL’s Logs we have to dig...
Blogs
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I type fairly well. Well, I type fast, but I do wear out a...
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Automatic Index Compaction
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Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
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