Need more templates for Proc Blaster? LockwoodTech Software has partnered with Harjai Software Consultants to develop templates for Proc-Blaster, a development tool for ASP Code Generation.
2003-07-14
825 reads
Here, in one definitive volume, is all the information you need to understand and use SQL and its implementations in accordance with the established SQL99 standard. Whether you want to learn database programming from scratch, you’d like to sharpen your SQL skills, or you need to know more about programming for a heterogeneous database environment, this book provides the complete menu. (Not Reviewed)
2003-07-11
948 reads
The big day is Monday. The day you get to show off what you know about SQL Server 2000. The problem is, you're not really up to speed. Maybe it's been a while since you worked with SQL Server. Or maybe you just like a challenge. Open the book Friday evening and by Sunday afternoon, after completing 30 fast, focused sessions, you'll be able to get right to work on a SQL Server 2000 databases.(Not Reviewed)
2003-07-04
793 reads
This article from Robbe Morris at EggheadCafe.com looks at how to generate a script for a stored procedure that includes all it's dependencies.
2003-07-03
1,549 reads
This article, Part 2 – SQL Server 6.5 to 2000 Critical Upgrade Decisions and Redundant Upgrade Architecture, will begin to detail the technical components faced by the DBAs and Developers during the Upgrade process. The technical components detail the Critical Upgrade Decisions related to ANSI NULLS, Quoted Identifiers and other items.
2003-06-30
2,377 reads
This article from Veritas does a good overview of the complexities involved in managing a SAN. SAN's are here to stay, even if you don't have one, you should be reading about them.
2003-06-26
550 reads
This article discusses various SQL Server Data Transformation Services (DTS) best practices. It is divided into sections like DTS naming conventions, DTS documentation, troubleshooting DTS packages, improving the performance of DTS packages, securing DTS packages, DTS resources.
2003-06-24
4,068 reads
Pedro Estrada has published a free tool that according to his site "This is a complete application to have an easier interface to work with BCP against MSSQL servers. Just specify a server, database, table user name and password to BCP out or IN." Worth a try, and he has some other free utilities (some SQL, some not) on the site.
2003-06-19
1,922 reads
myLittleTools.net is pleased to announce the release of myLittleAdmin, the most advanced and robuste web-based MS SQL and MSDE database administration tool. This new version offers a new skinnable interface and a lot of great new features, such as user levels, multi-databases support or SQL script generation. A lite version is available for free so that you can test it in your own environment. Use myLittleAdmin and do through a browser almost everything you did before with Enterprise Manager.
2003-06-17
1,164 reads
LockwoodTech has released a new sql tool that analyzes the SQL Server transaction log to passively audit a SQL Server database. You can track inserts, updates, deletes and full row level detail of past transactions (even before the tool was installed). Client supports powerful filtering, grouping and sorting of audit data.
2003-06-16
37 reads
By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
By gbargsley
One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server...
By Arun Sirpal
It’s 07:43. Someone’s already left a message. “Something’s wrong with the DB server.” You...
I have an issue where I have a Bill of Material list of items...
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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