Function to find non-printable characters
The function is used to find non-printable ASCII characters in an input string.
2009-05-21 (first published: 2009-04-24)
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2009-05-14 (first published: 2009-04-08)
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Last Sunday
Needed to return the week ending date as Sunday for daily transactions multiple times, for several aggregate reports. This function returns the last Sunday for past or future weeks.
2009-05-11 (first published: 2009-04-15)
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Cluster Information
This script will display information about the instance(s) on your cluster. Name of nodes, active node and drive letters of the resources
2009-05-08 (first published: 2009-04-15)
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2009-05-07 (first published: 2009-03-27)
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Convert GMT/UTC to Local datetime
International Applications require timezone handling for different users Here is how to do this with SQL.
2009-05-06
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Easily calculate the size of your tables
This quick and dirty sql will tell you the number of rows in your tables, the size in MB of yout data, and the total size (including indexes)
2009-05-05 (first published: 2008-10-04)
1,669 reads
The Ultimate Prospective-Index Column(s) Selectivity Analyzer
Gets single-column and cumulative-column selectivity stats and @Top largest dupe sets for each cumulative column stepping for a set of one or more columns for a table.
2009-05-03 (first published: 2008-08-01)
2,136 reads
What SQL JOb's are running on 2005 Server
This script returns the information of all SQL Jobs that are running on the server with the latest status.
2009-05-01 (first published: 2009-04-08)
1,626 reads
Check if a sql server agent job ran
Checks if a sql server job ran successfully in the last xx minutes.
2009-04-29 (first published: 2009-04-02)
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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