Webcast – Small Changes Can Make a World of Difference
This Thursday, 10AM GMT, I will be hosted by Dell’s Richard Douglas (blog|twitter) for a webcast. I will present my...
2014-03-18
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A Community Challenge
Earlier this week, I delivered a presentation called “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” to my local user group.
Among other...
2014-03-05
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The Strange Story About the MERGE that Killed the Cluster
I don’t like the MERGE statement. The syntax is weird, it’s tricky in terms of locks, and it has a...
2014-02-20
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Know When it’s Good Enough
Here’s a newsflash: You may not thing so, but you are expensive. There’s no point in endless performance tuning. I love...
2014-01-28
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Things I Learned in 2013
It’s 2014 now. I hope you had fun in new year’s eve.
2013 was an amazing and intense year. To recap...
2014-01-02
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T-SQL Tuesday #49: Using CXPacket Waits to Detect Query Bottlenecks
This post is for T-SQL Tuesday #49, the monthly blog party of the community.
This tradition was started by Adam...
2013-12-10
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Interviews with Brent Ozar, Adam Machanic and Denny Cherry for SQL Server Radio
While in SQLRally Amsterdam, I had the honor to interview Brent Ozar (blog | twitter), Adam Machanic (blog | twitter) and Denny Cherry (blog | twitter)...
2013-12-09
543 reads
My SQLRally Experience
The past week I had the pleasure to attend SQLRally Amsterdam.
I took a flight from Tel-Aviv to Amsterdam and got...
2013-11-11
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How to Limit IO Requests with SQL Server 2014 Resource Governor
Resource Governor was introduced in SQL Server 2008 in order to allow us have better control over our system resource...
2013-10-09
2,244 reads
How to Become a Better DBA
Whether you’re just starting out or already a few years in the game, you’re probably wondering how you can become...
2013-08-30 (first published: 2013-08-26)
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Blogs
Where Is My SQL Agent? Running Scheduled Jobs Against Azure SQL Database
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One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server...
AgentDBA vs Critical SQL Server
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It’s 07:43. Someone’s already left a message. “Something’s wrong with the DB server.” You...
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
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I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...
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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