The Broken Window
A new data mining thrilled from Jeffrey Deaver has Steve Jones concerned about the centralization of data mining.
The Broken Window
A new data mining thrilled from Jeffrey Deaver has Steve Jones concerned about the centralization of data mining.
The Fall vConference Series
A series of online conferences covering various aspects of SQL Server and other Microsoft technologies. Check out the list for this fall and see if there is some training that you can attend.
A Lack of SQL
Steve Jones talks about a company looking to write all their stored procedures using the CLR in SQL Server. Is this a good idea?
A Lack of SQL
Steve Jones talks about a company looking to write all their stored procedures using the CLR in SQL Server. Is this a good idea?
A Lack of SQL
Steve Jones talks about a company looking to write all their stored procedures using the CLR in SQL Server. Is this a good idea?
Is it 1995?
A bug in the SQL Server 2008 upgrade process has Steve Jones questioning the coding practices at Microsoft.
Is it 1995?
A bug in the SQL Server 2008 upgrade process has Steve Jones questioning the coding practices at Microsoft.
Is it 1995?
A bug in the SQL Server 2008 upgrade process has Steve Jones questioning the coding practices at Microsoft.
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