How To: Automate Continuous SQLServer Activity with Stored Procedures and Powershell Jobs
The Goal
It’s often useful to be able to run a bunch of stored procedures in the background over a period...
2011-03-02
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Kendra Little
Internals Matter: Why You Should Check Your Page Verify Settings, and I Should Go to Masters Immersion Training (SQL Skills Contest Entry)
This post is about two things:
1) Your Page Verification Settings are Critical
You should confirm you are running with the correct...
2011-01-25
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Read from the Right End of the Index: BACKWARD Scans
Optimizing queries is the most fun when you don’t need to add indexes. There’s nothing quite so nice as finding...
2011-01-25
1,467 reads
Corrupting Databases for Dummies- Hex Editor Edition
Corruption is so ugly it gets a lolworm instead of a lolcat.
Let’s make one thing clear from the start:
This Post...
2011-01-24
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Read from the Right End of the Index: BACKWARD Scans
Optimizing queries is the most fun when you don’t need to add indexes. There’s nothing quite so nice as finding...
2011-01-21
1,892 reads
Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME
Tiny Devils
With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates. This posts looks a little more...
2011-01-12
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Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME
Tiny Devils
With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates. This posts looks a little more...
2011-01-06
2,398 reads
Filling in Data Potholes Redux: Tally Tables vs CTEs
In A Previous Installment
Re-Ducks
… our heroine (that’s me) rediscovered CTEs, specifically in the recursive style. That was in my post...
2011-01-04
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Why I’m All For 24HOP Showcasing 24 Women Speakers
This is not the HOP you are looking for.
I’ve been thinking about the upcoming 24HOP event planned for March 15...
2010-12-27
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Filling in Data Potholes with Recursive CTEs
Data: it can break your foot.
Imagine that you are writing a script that looks at data grouped by the minute....
2010-12-23
1,144 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Roundup
A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited...
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...
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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