SQL Saturday 467 – Precon – Query processing and internals
Im not doing a tremendous amount of public speaking this year and concentrating on more professional matters, however im pleased...
2015-10-04
305 reads
Dave Ballantyne
Getting out of the ground with TSQL Smells.
At SQLBits I had a number of conversations with a number of people over TSQL Smells, my open source project...
2015-03-23
692 reads
Increasing ColumnStore compression ratio for archival and “Cold storage”
At my present client, part of the task I have to under take is to re-engineer the “Cold Storage”. This...
2015-03-17
359 reads
SQLBits, Incremental Statistics and Demo Fail
So another great SQLBits is done and dusted, many thanks to the team, helpers and sponsors for putting on such...
2015-03-08
483 reads
Non use of persisted data – Part Three
A long time ago I looked at some reasons as to why persisted computed columns ( and therefore indexes on those...
2014-11-02
369 reads
Please please tell me now…
.. Is there something I should know, sang Duran Duran many moons ago when I was young and before I knew...
2014-08-15
405 reads
Reasons why your plans suck : No 56,536
I have been working with SQL server for more years than I really care to mention and like to think...
2014-04-12
389 reads
T4 Support in SSDT
Sometimes a piece of technology passes you by completely, T4 templating happens to have done that for me. On tuesday night,...
2014-03-29
1,151 reads
Whats This Command Bar ?
One of the challenges I faced while creating my TSQL Smells visual studio (SSDT) add in, was trying to find out...
2014-03-13
320 reads
On the move
Its been a fair few years since I started blogging on SQLBlogCasts and the time has now come to find...
2013-04-14
622 reads
Blogs
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...
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
By davebem
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