2013-02-22 (first published: 2013-02-05)
1,791 reads
Scripts
Script to Rebuild/Reorganise Indexes
A script to get the fragmentation of indexes in a database and then rebuild or reorganise accordingly
2013-02-19 (first published: 2013-01-29)
2,133 reads
2013-02-18 (first published: 2013-01-25)
2,773 reads
Get Detach or Attach all user databases script
Script to generate script to detach or attach user databases
2013-02-15 (first published: 2013-01-29)
6,006 reads
Reorganize indexes for all tables in all user databases
Script to reorganize all indexes on all tables in user databases
2013-02-14 (first published: 2013-01-31)
3,265 reads
2013-02-13 (first published: 2013-01-25)
2,002 reads
Generate Column Metadata
This utility will generate column and parameter metadata in various useful formats for tables, views, and procedures.
2013-02-12 (first published: 2013-01-18)
756 reads
Tables and rows listing
Simple script which create a list of all the tables and rows of the selected DB.
2013-02-11 (first published: 2012-12-21)
1,174 reads
2013-02-08 (first published: 2012-12-27)
1,535 reads
T-SQL Bulk Insert
T-SQL that allows you to import tab delimited text file into correct table based on file name.
2013-02-07 (first published: 2012-12-27)
2,322 reads
Blogs
Automatic Index Compaction
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The Goldilocks problem – Materialized Views
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Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
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Forums
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How We Handled a Vendor Retry That Loaded Twice in Snowflake
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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