2012-09-04 (first published: 2008-04-24)
1,155 reads
Scripts
Find Mismatched Views and Stored Procs
Find missing and mismatched views and stored procs between 2 Databases
2012-09-03 (first published: 2008-05-29)
1,723 reads
Insertion Query Creation of a Table in Milliseconds
This script helps you to constitute insertion procedures for tables in a millisecond.
2012-08-30 (first published: 2007-11-05)
2,330 reads
A simple way to find some arguments
A simple way to find any term in all banks or only in a specific database.
2012-08-28 (first published: 2012-08-17)
811 reads
SSRS Execution Log Queries
A few brief selects to expose snippets of data which may be useful for debugging larger issues.
2012-08-27 (first published: 2012-08-15)
3,697 reads
2012-08-24 (first published: 2007-09-29)
1,694 reads
2012-08-23 (first published: 2008-06-05)
1,706 reads
2012-08-22 (first published: 2008-03-24)
1,903 reads
Identify Unique Columns
Tool to automatically query combinations of columns in your table to determine candidate for unique key.
2012-08-21 (first published: 2008-01-28)
2,902 reads
Display Names and Locations of SQL Database Files and DB Owners
Displays the names of all of the SQL databases on a SQL Server instance, their data and transaction log files, their owner, and their physical locations.
2012-08-20 (first published: 2012-07-27)
1,600 reads
Blogs
AI Helps Me with My Sloppiness
By Steve Jones
I type fairly well. Well, I type fast, but I do wear out a...
Automatic Index Compaction
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The Goldilocks problem – Materialized Views
I’m sure you’ve all heard the tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but...
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