Query Store, Forced Plans, and New Plans
I love questions. I recently received one about new plans in the Query Store (available in Azure SQL Database now and in...
2016-05-23 (first published: 2016-05-16)
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Grant Fritchey
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Use The Correct Data Type
Blog post #5 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel. Read about it here.
Saying that you should use the...
2016-05-18 (first published: 2016-05-12)
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Implicit Conversion and Performance
Letting SQL Server change data types automatically can seriously impact performance in a negative way. Because a calculation has to be run...
2016-05-03
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How to Convince the Boss to Send You to PASS Summit
August two years ago I originally posted, Make the PASS Summit Work for Your Employer. After conversations at several SQL...
2016-05-02
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Customizing Your Azure Portal
Not all of us are going to use Azure in the same way. That’s just common sense. Therefore, not all...
2016-04-27
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Microsoft’s Commitment to Azure
For several years, many of us who were involved with working in Azure from the early days, were concerned that...
2016-04-21
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Payment and the Board
If you read the March PASS Board meeting minutes, you saw that there was a discussion around board members and...
2016-04-20
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A View Is Not A Table
Blog post #4 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel
In SQL Server, in the T-SQL you use to query...
2016-04-19 (first published: 2016-04-12)
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Query Store and Optimize For Ad Hoc
I love presenting sessions because you get so many interesting questions. For example, what happens with Optimize for Ad Hoc...
2016-04-11 (first published: 2016-03-28)
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Views and Simplification
I’ve been getting lots of questions on views lately. Must be something in the water.
Because SQL Server allows you to...
2016-04-05
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Blogs
No Shortcuts for the SQLCMD Batch Terminator: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
Where Is My SQL Agent? Running Scheduled Jobs Against Azure SQL Database
By gbargsley
One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server...
AgentDBA vs Critical SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
It’s 07:43. Someone’s already left a message. “Something’s wrong with the DB server.” You...
Forums
Increment a number in a SQL Query based on a value
I have an issue where I have a Bill of Material list of items...
Follow Your Hunch
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What Happens When You Ask a Local AI to Query Your Database?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item What Happens When You Ask...
Question of the Day
Detecting Characters
I have a SQL Server 2022 English default installation on a server. I want to detect if there are any upper case characters in rows and I have this code:
SELECT CustomerNameID,
CustomerName
FROM dbo.CustomerName
WHERE CustomerName = LOWER(CustomerName)
Here is the sample data I am testing with:
CustomerNameID CustomerName 1 John Smith 2 Sarah Johnson 3 MICHAEL WILLIAMS 4 JENNIFER BROWN 5 david jones 6 emily davis 7 Robert Miller 8 LISA WILSON 9 christopher moore 10 Amanda TaylorHow many rows are returned? See possible answers