Denver SQL Server User’s Group Meeting on October 20, 2011
The Denver SQL Server User’s Group will be having their monthly meeting tonight at the Microsoft office in the Denver...
2011-10-20
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Glenn Berry
October 2011 SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries
Since Microsoft released the official name for “SQL Server Code Named Denali” last week at the PASS 2011 Summit, it...
2011-10-19
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October 2011 SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries
Since Microsoft has been so busy releasing Cumulative Updates for both SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 over...
2011-10-18
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SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM CU10
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 10. This is Build 10.50.1807.0, and it has 13 listed...
2011-10-18
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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU3
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 3. This is Build 10.50.2789.0, and it has 22 listed...
2011-10-18
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SQL Server 2008 SP3 CU1
Microsoft has been busy getting SQL Server Cumulative Updates released over the past couple of days. The latest release is...
2011-10-18
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Scaling SQL Server
On Friday, October 14, 2011, I had the pleasure of delivering my new Scaling SQL Server presentation at the PASS...
2011-10-17
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Liveblog for Day 2 Keynote at SQL PASS Summit 2011
There are four racks of servers and storage on stage for today’s keynote complete with roaring fans and flashing lights....
2011-10-14
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Liveblog for Day 1 Keynote at SQL PASS 2011
It is hard to live tweet or live blog when the Wi-Fi is not working reliably. The keynote starts out...
2011-10-12
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Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware
On Wednesday, October 12, at 10:15AM, I am going to get the pleasure of presenting my Hardware 301: Diving Deeper...
2011-10-11
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Blogs
No Shortcuts for the SQLCMD Batch Terminator: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
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...
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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