Escaping from a runaway Logon trigger
Most people know that logon triggers can be dangerous if you aren’t careful. And if you didn’t know, well, logon...
2014-05-27 (first published: 2014-05-19)
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Kenneth Fisher
Microsoft’s free virtual labs
If you have spent any time looking around my site, you will notice that I love study materials and in...
2014-05-26
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DBA Myths: A table with a primary key is not a heap
Typically when you see a heading like this you know the answer is “No” or “False” but in this case...
2014-05-21
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Granting or denying permissions to all of the tables within a database
When granting or denying permissions to the tables within a database you have two options. You can either add the...
2014-05-20 (first published: 2014-05-15)
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T-SQL Tuesday #54: Interviews!
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again and this month our host is Boris Hristov (b/t). He has asked us to discuss Interviewing....
2014-05-16 (first published: 2014-05-13)
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Does SQL Server do a CHECKDB during an instance restart?
When you start up an instance do you rely on the CHECKDB entry in the error log of SQL Server...
2014-05-13 (first published: 2014-05-07)
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Why is there a sysobjects when we already have sys.objects?
Once upon a time in a version of SQL far far away we had system tables that were easy to...
2014-05-05
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Collation: Confusion
I started reading about collations after I had a recent run in with them. As I read I started to...
2014-05-02 (first published: 2014-04-23)
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Collation: Temporary objects and variables: Demonstration
I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading about them. As I read...
2014-04-30 (first published: 2014-04-21)
2,034 reads
DBA Myths: TRUNCATE TABLE deletes all the rows of a table instantly.
Most DBAs and developers I’ve talked to over the years have felt that TRUNCATE TABLE is an instant DELETE. However...
2014-04-30
2,723 reads
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