2011-10-12 (first published: 2011-08-31)
946 reads
Scripts
2011-10-10 (first published: 2011-08-24)
834 reads
Get Modified Objects As on Date
This table Valued Function return the Modified Objects (SP /Views) For the Date specified.
2011-10-07 (first published: 2007-11-23)
1,388 reads
2011-10-06 (first published: 2007-11-14)
1,936 reads
Using sys.dm_exec_requests to estimate completion time for a process
The following script is used to check on the progress of a database restore, backup and other processes currently executing on SQL Server.
2011-10-05 (first published: 2011-09-09)
7,673 reads
Generating number sequences with Common Table Expressions
The script shows one of ways generating number sequence - this one uses CTE.
2011-10-04 (first published: 2008-02-06)
1,944 reads
Getting Age in Text or Date Difference in text format
This function returns the difference between the date in text format
2011-10-03 (first published: 2011-08-30)
1,035 reads
2011-10-03 (first published: 2008-03-27)
7,198 reads
Copy Multiple objects from One Schema to Another Schema
Copy Multiple objects from One Schema to Another Schema
2011-09-30 (first published: 2011-09-07)
1,550 reads
Function to Expand Tab Characters
A function to replace tab characters with the correct number of spaces to align the text as originally intended.
2011-09-29 (first published: 2007-10-11)
2,222 reads
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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