Be Cautious When Critizing About Guidance
I recently posted some comments about some guidance offered by Microsoft when talking about the CXPACKET wait type. Nothing I...
2013-08-07
675 reads
Grant Fritchey
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Be Cautious Offering Guidance
Guidance is hard.
Seriously, you’d think it would be easy. You’d think you say things like, don’t shrink your database, most...
2013-08-05
2,326 reads
Speaker of the Month, August 2013
I’m trying out a new blog post series, mostly for myself as an exercise. I’m going to pick one speaker...
2013-08-02
630 reads
Azure for Prototyping and Development
Psssttt!
Developers. Man, have I got something good for you.
Are your DBAs slowing down your development processes? Are they keeping you...
2013-07-29
1,743 reads
24 Hours of Education
You absolutely need to learn more. I need to learn more (lots more). We all should be constantly learning more...
2013-07-24
565 reads
A Tale of Two Hotels
This is a long and convoluted post about my experiences at two hotels, but it has a point for DBAs...
2013-07-15
831 reads
Getting Started With SQL Server 2014 the Easy Way
You know you want to at least take a look at the new Client Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server...
2013-07-05 (first published: 2013-07-01)
2,155 reads
SQL in the City London 2013
Wow!
You’d think that an event might get a little worn by the third time you’re doing it. That maybe it...
2013-07-02
728 reads
I Don’t Care
It’s funny how certain sentences can both accurately reflect a situation and communicate entirely the wrong message.
When thinking about cloud-based...
2013-06-24
738 reads
Azure First
Microsoft has been pretty clear about their commitment to the entire Azure infrastructure. The updates to Azure come out on...
2013-06-20 (first published: 2013-06-17)
2,252 reads
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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