2001-09-04
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Scripts
Handling Delimited Strings in T-SQL
There may be cases where you want to work with delimited strings in T-SQL. Following two examples will cover most of the stuff that you will face while working with strings.
2001-09-01
3,184 reads
Detect and Alert DBA of Blocking SPIDS
This script will detect and alert the DBA of blocking processes. The DBA can adjust the length of time the block has exisited before sending the net send message.
2001-08-29
5,219 reads
Script to obtain datadictionary from a SQL2000 db
This script creates a stored procedure that, when executed, queries the system tables of any SQL2000 database to return a complete, ordered datadictionary. *Warning**This script only works on tables which have the description property filled out as my main purpose was to query the extended property description feature new to SQL2000. If you have not […]
2001-08-27
3,135 reads
2001-08-26
1,419 reads
2001-08-22
406 reads
hx_DatabaseProperties
Displays database properties. Was this the best way of doing it? Probably not, but it works.
2001-08-22
552 reads
hx_dbMaintancePlans
Displays Maintance plan history if any. I used distinct to filter out and return only what is relevent to what I need. You may not wish this for your purposes. Feel free to make changes
2001-08-22
390 reads
2001-08-22
727 reads
hx_GetPKLessTables
Returns a list of table names from the current database Which do not have primary keys assigned.
2001-08-22
428 reads
Blogs
Automatic Index Compaction
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The Goldilocks problem – Materialized Views
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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