2016-10-21 (first published: 2015-05-12)
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Scripts
Recompile All Databases stored Procedures
When code is getting stall, sometimes the execution plans are point to the wrong or out dated or old objects. You would need to recompile all the stored procedures
2016-10-14 (first published: 2016-09-26)
4,347 reads
Expand Template with Values from Result Set
This stored procedure extracts template variable names and values from a SQL result set in order to process the template.
2016-10-13 (first published: 2016-09-14)
361 reads
SQLCMD to export data in txt file
SQLCMD is one of many methods to export your database data to some text file
2016-10-12 (first published: 2016-09-27)
22,131 reads
2016-10-07 (first published: 2016-09-20)
1,560 reads
Handling with currently running and blocking sessions
Checks currently running sessions and blocking queries with session information
2016-10-05 (first published: 2016-09-16)
801 reads
2016-10-04 (first published: 2016-09-19)
465 reads
Work time calculation
One way to calculate how many minutes a person has worked considering holidays and shifts, being given starting and ending date / time
2016-09-29 (first published: 2016-09-08)
583 reads
Simple Object and String Search within Objects
This Simple script will help to do a Server wide search for an object name or usage of a String in Object Code like Function, Procedure, Views
2016-09-26 (first published: 2016-08-25)
468 reads
2016-09-23 (first published: 2016-08-30)
589 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