SQL Server 2016 Announced, and it stretches to the Cloud!
Last week during Ignite, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the next version(Till then it was called as SQL vNext) of...
2015-05-10
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Exploring AlwaysOn Availability Group Template in Azure
This is one of those posts which is due for a long time. I was really excited when Microsoft announced...
2015-04-08 (first published: 2015-04-01)
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This one enhancement makes AlwaysOn Availability Group better in SQL Server 2014 !
I keep getting questions on what is improved other than the increased number of secondaries(8 now) with AlwaysOn Availability Group(AG) in...
2015-03-02 (first published: 2015-02-19)
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SELECT INTO Improvements in SQL Server 2014 !
SQL Server 2014 is a great release with high performance features like In Memory OLTP, Updatable Column Store Indexes etc.
These features still...
2015-01-15 (first published: 2015-01-13)
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SQLCMD and SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER
Let’s talk about something simple today. You might already be knowing this, but if you haven’t seen/noted this before then...
2014-11-20 (first published: 2014-11-14)
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#SQLPASS #Summit14 Day 2 Keynote Highlights !
This was one of those days I was waiting to happen. You might be wondering whats special? Yes, this day...
2014-11-10
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#SQLPASS #Summit14 Day 1 Keynote Highlights !
PASS President Thomas LaRock on stage !
PASS President Thomas LaRock kicked off the summit keynote.
Tom talked about the history of...
2014-11-05
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My 1st SQL in the City Experience !
I attended my 1st #SQLinthecity event hosted by RedGate yesterday. This is one of those events which I wanted to attend...
2014-11-05
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SQLPASS Summit 2014 is here, The largest SQLServer Conference !
November is not the right time to visit Seattle (Blame the rain!), but I kinda like November because that’s when...
2014-11-03
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Checking out Windows Server Technical Preview on Azure !
I’m a great fan of running the latest version of Windows Server whenever I deploy SQLServer. I always try to...
2014-10-10 (first published: 2014-10-04)
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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