2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-05-08)
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Query to find the Job Output file location at each job step
Query to find the Job Output file location at each job step.
This helps if you want to find out the location of each output file of jobs to find out whether those are going to the right location.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-04-24)
3,337 reads
Read all trace file data and print the action performed
If you want to read trace file records from default trace location and want to print to see what are all the activities happened on SQL Server, the query will be helpful for you.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2014-11-12)
2,336 reads
READ Data from default Trace
READ Data from default Trace to know when the objects are altered. If no database name is provided, it will run through all the databases.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-04-08)
1,423 reads
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-10-05)
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Report Alerts from SQL ErrorLog
Sends Back Critical Alerts from ErrorLog occurred in the last 24 Hrs. You can even modify the data [Check @start and change the value]
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-05-15)
2,493 reads
Retrieving XML data to Table from dm_os_ring_buffers
Retrieving XML data to Table from dm_os_ring_buffers for better readable purpose
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-08-03)
991 reads
Run a specific query across all servers using powershell
Run a specific query across all servers using powershell
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-03-06)
3,265 reads
2019-05-03 (first published: 2010-12-15)
2,987 reads
Search a string in a text with number of occurrences
IF you have a long string and if you want to search a specific input string, and number of timeS the string has occurred then it's helps
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-03-29)
1,434 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