2018-02-07
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Kenneth Fisher
SQL Homework – February 2018 – Work with security
This month let’s create some security!
Create logins: GUI 5 pts/Script 5 pts
Create a SQL login and a Windows authenticated login....
2018-02-05
308 reads
The difference between blogging about something you know, and something you are learning (Love blogging! Live!)
Close but you need to blog about learning while blogging about the difference of blogging when you are learning something...
2018-01-31
510 reads
How To: Install SQL Server on an Azure VM
Last month I demonstrated creating an Azure VM with SQL installed using one of the default templates. While this is...
2018-01-29
615 reads
What’s dbo?
Don’t you hate it how certain words (well, acronyms in this case) get reused to mean multiple things? dbo seems...
2018-01-29 (first published: 2018-01-22)
1,979 reads
Who should own the database?
TL;DR; SA, or if you are really paranoid then you can create a disabled SQL login with minimal permissions and...
2018-01-25 (first published: 2018-01-15)
2,709 reads
Help it takes forever to open the SQL Server Log!
Just to be very clear, I’m talking about the SQL Server Log, not database logs. Sometimes this is called the...
2018-01-24
441 reads
How to read a technical blog
There are thousands, tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of blogs out there on all sorts of topics. If...
2018-01-17
310 reads
Fun with sp_rename
Currently the only way to rename objects in SQL Server is to use sp_rename. Although that may be changing in...
2018-01-11
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2018-01-10
244 reads
Blogs
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...
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...
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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