Dropping Foreign Keys The Lazy Way
Hello!
So, on another blog a long time ago, I wrote a couple of posts about foreign keys and what step...
2017-04-18
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Richie Lee
When NOLOCK LOCKS!
This is hardly breaking news, but it’s important to know: when using NOLOCK table hints in SQL Server, it can...
2017-03-17
3,108 reads
SQL Server Compression 101
The data compression feature in SQL Server can help reduce the size of the database as well as improve the performance of intensive I/O intensive workloads, especially on data...
2016-10-28
6 reads
Turbo LogShip 1.0 Released
Earlier this year, I wrote a long post about log shipping. One of the key points I mentioned was how slow restoring can be for a read only log...
2016-08-30
8 reads
SQL Server Database File Size and Free Space Revisited
I recently had a comment posted to one of my first articles I wrote way back in 2012 concerning adding a column that detailed the used space as a...
2016-02-06
11 reads
2015-12-15
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Finding Locks on Tables
Recently I needed to find a stored procedure that was creating a lock on a table and updating the table regularly. So my starting point was the table name,...
2015-04-30
3 reads
EXEC sp_executeSQL
Today I am going to talk about the stored proc sp_executesql and the benefits it has over EXEC @SQL. Microsoft actually recommend that you use the sp_executesql stored procedure...
2014-10-27
4 reads
How To Split Non-Empty Partitions When A Clustered Columnstore Index Exists on The Table
Another pithily titled blog post, but this one revisits the feature of SQL Server 2014 that piqued my interest the most: Clustered Columnstore Indexes. I’ve been working with Clustered...
2014-08-18
357 reads
Microsoft's Lousy Response to a Connect Issue
I’ve been going through the process of upgrading from SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2014 and I’ve hit a bug when running snapshots. Any snapshot that was in...
2014-06-18
10 reads
Blogs
Where Is My SQL Agent? Running Scheduled Jobs Against Azure SQL Database
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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...
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
By davebem
I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...
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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