2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-03-29)
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Scripts
Getting transaction log space usage statistics for all databases.
Easy way to get the TLOg space Usage details
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-11-19)
1,391 reads
Job Step Log Output file path
If you have a requirement to carefully have the output file against each sql agent job step, you can use this script. If incase, there are many sql agent jobs and by any reason if any of the step does not have proper o/p file, this script can automatically create the o/p file.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-05-20)
1,557 reads
Kill all USer Sessions before starting to restore a Database
If you have a requirement to Kill all USer Sessions before starting to restore a Database, you may use this script
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-07-08)
2,152 reads
Killing User Connection(session) connected to the Database.
The script will be helpful to kill all the user sessions before performing the refresh of the database.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2011-03-29)
2,657 reads
List Out All User Defined Triggers
List Out All User Defined Triggers, along with the database where the triggers are disabled. is_ms_shipped = 1 denotes that its an user written trigger.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-07-07)
842 reads
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-09-13)
1,930 reads
PowerShell Query to remove backup folders against multiple servers
Remove backup folders from multiple servers.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2014-12-09)
621 reads
Query to check whether my Full Database Backup is running fine.
The query will help to find whether my database backup to a specific instance of SQL Server is running fine. If HH> 1, this would signify that the backup is running, else this is a failure.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2012-08-25)
1,246 reads
Query to Delete all Folders, Sub-Folders and Files located in a Path
A script to help you cleanup Files/Folders & Sub-folders.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-07-30)
72 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