Speaker of the Month: March 2016
I’m finally getting back out to community events so I should be able to avoid giving this gigantic honor to professional...
2016-03-04
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Grant Fritchey
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Query Store and Recompile
One of the many advantages of SQL Cruise is the ability to have enough time during a presentation to be...
2016-02-24
624 reads
Why Is The Server Slow?
This is blog post #2 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel.
If you haven’t been working in SQL Server for very...
2016-02-24 (first published: 2016-02-22)
2,843 reads
Azure SQL Database Error
I was on SQL Cruise where I was scheduled to present a session on Azure SQL Database. I recorded all...
2016-02-18
448 reads
Loading Data into Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Ouch.
Let’s start with the level set. I’m not an ETL expert. In fact, I haven’t done any professional ETL work...
2016-02-15
1,540 reads
Speaker of the Month: February 2016
I’ve been a little remiss on this. I just haven’t been getting out to see people speak for a while...
2016-02-12
460 reads
Positivity
I’m sitting in the classroom of SQL Cruise listening to Tim Ford (b|t) explain mechanisms for monitoring indexes. It’s a...
2016-02-04
553 reads
Finding Your Query in Query Store
Query Store is pretty amazing. I’m loving working with it. I think it’s likely to change how query tuning will...
2016-02-01 (first published: 2016-01-25)
2,306 reads
Learning R: Happy With My Book Choice
This is just a quick update. I wrote about the two books I’m using to learn R. Well, I’m extremely...
2016-02-01
501 reads
PASS Board 2016: Update #1
Hello everyone. Just because I’ve moved on to the executive committee doesn’t mean I’m walking away from these reports. I...
2016-01-29
898 reads
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...
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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