Using SSIS to zip files and email the zipped files
I have often needed a means to send zipped files via email. This article shows one method to do just this.
Happy New Year 2010
The first day of 2010 has Steve Jones blooper reel in addition to some well wishes.
Happy New Year 2010
The first day of 2010 has Steve Jones blooper reel in addition to some well wishes.
Query Optimizer and Cartesian Products
In his continuing quest to bring a deeper understanding of Query Optimizer to the world at large, Fabiano Amorim takes a moment to point out a potential pitfall you may encounter. A light read, but one worth persuing.
A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
Pre Check List for 64 BIT SQL Server 2008 Cluster Installation
My tips for cluster installation with Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 on a 64 BIT server which is clustered.
A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
Connection strings for SQL Server 2008
A set of different connection strings for using with different providers for SQL Server.
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