Trim Left Char (for single words)
Remove the first replications of a specified char in a word. It does not work well with text that contains blank spaces in the middle.
2012-08-16 (first published: 2012-08-02)
957 reads
Scripts
Script to get an ordered list of all stored procedures with parameters
Generate a per-schema, per-procedure ordered list of all stored procedures for the current database, together with their parameters, datatypes and nullability.
2012-08-14 (first published: 2012-08-08)
2,257 reads
List of objects from particular schemas
This helps to get list of all objects in a particular schemas.
2012-08-13 (first published: 2012-08-08)
1,159 reads
2012-08-13 (first published: 2012-07-31)
1,790 reads
2008 Index Rebuild using DMV
Index Maintenance procedure with HTML Reporting capabilities. Please refer to attached script for detailed information.
2012-08-09 (first published: 2012-07-26)
1,664 reads
Calculate alphabetic sequence
This simple function allows to calculate a code sequence of letters. AAA, AAB, AAAC, ADF, .... AAZ, ABA, ABC, ... ZZZ
2012-08-08 (first published: 2012-07-25)
956 reads
2012-08-03 (first published: 2008-01-09)
2,323 reads
2012-08-01 (first published: 2008-02-15)
3,224 reads
2005 Online Index Rebuild using DMV
Identifies indexes with average logical fragmentation >= 30% using the DM available in MSSQL 2005. Please refer to script for more information.
2012-07-31 (first published: 2007-10-09)
4,376 reads
2012-07-25 (first published: 2012-07-12)
2,521 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