I’m a Traveling Man
We are coming into quite a busy time for my speaking schedule. I’m hitting the road. It does one thing...
2014-04-10
790 reads
Grant Fritchey
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
- Website: https://scarydba.com
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Curation and Performance
I’m trying out a new web site from Microsoft called Curah! that is all about curation. Curation is basically what...
2014-04-08
804 reads
Thanks For Stopping By
Yesterday I passed 300,000 views on the blog. Recently I went over 1,000 comments. My little joke on Tuesday garnered...
2014-04-03
646 reads
SQL Server 2014 New Defaults
Today, April 1st, 2014, marks the release of SQL Server 2014. There are tons and tons of great new methods...
2014-04-01
975 reads
SQL Server 2014 New Defaults
SQL Server 2014 is being released and a change in the defaults will ensure that more instances will run smoother.
2014-04-01
2,616 reads
Save Money On Your Training Server
You can spend less money. Some of us are lucky. We work for very large corporations who can easily set...
2014-03-31 (first published: 2014-03-25)
2,200 reads
PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Talk
I almost forgot to tell you about the Database Administration Virtual Chapter meeting next week, March 26th, 2014. I’ll be...
2014-03-21
639 reads
Query Tuning Near You
It really is so much easier to just throw hardware at badly performing databases. Just buy a bigger, faster server...
2014-03-19
1,187 reads
Finding Mistakes
Ever had that moment where you start getting errors from code that you’ve tested a million times? I had that...
2014-03-18
781 reads
SQL Saturday: You can’t have it all.
SQL Saturday’s are awesome! Let’s get that clear up front. The organizers of SQL Saturday events are glorious individuals. Let’s...
2014-03-17
671 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