I find it extremely easy to sometimes lose sight of the important stuff. The day-to-day grind can seriously get in the way. I think this is a big part of how we find ourselves having so many silly intra-organizational turf wars. The developers don’t like how the DBAs do things. The DBAs are frustrated with […]
2017-10-30
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“I would educate myself, and that I would never stop educating myself. It was my responsibility to keep learning.” Who said that? Albert Einstein? Da Vinci? Stephen Hawking? None of the above. That statement came from the Demon of the rock band KISS, Gene Simmons. If a rock & roll legend knows that it’s on […]
2017-08-21
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I don’t doubt for a minute that on a certain level you’re sick to death of people talking about the Wanna Cry ransomware. However, bear with me, we need to go through it just a little more because it actually has some bearing on us as data professionals. OK, more than some bearing, it’s a […]
2017-06-05
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Grant Fritchey on the lessons all DBAs can learn from the recent Public Relations disaster for United Airlines.
2017-04-24
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The news cycle seems to be dominated by discussion of politics. Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, the talk of politics is inescapable and is probably going to lead to you being displeased with your fellow man. Luckily, we work in IT, so we can avoid politics. BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Politics goes way beyond […]
2017-02-20
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Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey that looks at emotions and how they can affect our decision making.
2016-10-28
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When working with SQL Server, many people don't need the search engine to be their junior DBA, they need it to be their senior DBA.
2016-10-10
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Why would I want the boss to be able to see so easily every little bad thing that happens on my servers? Grant Fritchey offers a few reasons...
2016-09-26
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On the First of June, SQL Server 2016 was officially released. While it is still early days to measure the full impact of the release, the one thing that is exceedingly clear is that this is a very successful software release. There have been very few complaints online beyond the standard heard during any upgrade: […]
2016-06-27
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2016-03-14
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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