Monitoring Resource Governor Memory Grants
A very useful query that will allow you to monitor the resource governor memory grants along with other useful information.
2011-03-03 (first published: 2011-02-14)
3,200 reads
Scripts
Search for a text in all databases
This procedure searches for a specified text in all (or one selected) databases in all (or selected) tables.
2011-03-02 (first published: 2008-01-25)
5,085 reads
2011-03-01 (first published: 2011-02-18)
4,008 reads
Columns Explorer - With constraints create / drop scripts (no cursors)
Gets all columns infos, foreign keys (multicolumn fk handled), referenced primary keys, default and check constraints, indexes, Create/Drop scripts for all constraints.
2011-02-28 (first published: 2011-02-18)
1,589 reads
String tokenizing / splitting
We often have need of string splitting in applications. I had need of one in some T-SQL development I am currently doing for a friend.
2011-02-25 (first published: 2011-02-09)
2,030 reads
Financial Month
This Script will return the respective financial month(Starts from April to March) for a calander month Input(Starts from January to April), May use for many Consolidated Financial Reports.
2011-02-21 (first published: 2011-02-05)
1,529 reads
2011-02-21 (first published: 2011-02-05)
1,958 reads
Search for a specified GUID (or its part) in all databases (updated)
This procedure searches for the specified GUID (or its part) in all (or selected one) databases
2011-02-21 (first published: 2008-01-24)
944 reads
2011-02-18 (first published: 2011-01-25)
3,060 reads
(new) Kill ALL Connections To a SQL Database
Ever puzzled by the database "Currently in Use" error even though you thought all connections had been Killed? That’s because the wrong table SysProcesses was used.
2011-02-15 (first published: 2011-01-26)
3,938 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