2018-08-13 (first published: 2018-07-18)
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Scripts
2018-08-08 (first published: 2018-07-22)
432 reads
Table Space Used in DB
A quick script that provides the sizes of the tables in your database, including schema and choice of sort method
2018-08-07 (first published: 2018-07-29)
808 reads
2018-07-17 (first published: 2018-06-26)
927 reads
STRING and FIND SQL Functions
SQL Functions that simplify search and operations over strings on SQL Server (starting with 2012)
2018-07-11 (first published: 2018-07-06)
4,910 reads
User Stored Procedure for Backup of user databases
This script is intended to demonstrate how we can create a stored procedure for the user responsible for backing up user databases in a default storage location.
2018-07-10 (first published: 2018-07-05)
512 reads
2018-07-09 (first published: 2018-07-04)
500 reads
Create Database using dynamic SQL
The T-SQL script created a databases using the default file locations from SQL server configuration and prints them in the end.
2018-07-05 (first published: 2018-06-28)
1,957 reads
User access management on DB & object level
It will help to find and manage the users access on DB level
2018-07-05 (first published: 2018-06-26)
421 reads
2018-06-15 (first published: 2018-01-04)
2,099 reads
Blogs
Automatic Index Compaction
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Cognitive Coverage
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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