What is a Favicon?
If I were to show you the tabs in the following pic without a description, would you recognize the websites to which they belong? I would dare say that...
2012-03-08
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Jason Brimhall
Physical or Virtual
Today I get to share something that has been on my someday list for quite some time. I have planned...
2012-03-07
2,137 reads
Physical or Virtual
Today I get to share something that has been on my someday list for quite some time. I have planned on getting a solution that involves TSQL to help...
2012-03-07
15 reads
Views in Use?
Today, I am following up on a topic I mentioned in an earlier post. In case you haven’t read the...
2012-03-06
682 reads
Views in Use?
Today, I am following up on a topic I mentioned in an earlier post. In case you haven’t read the post on finding your linked servers, you can read...
2012-03-06
3 reads
A DBAs List of Little Things
Today is Meme Monday. Today we get to talk about all of the little things a DBA does. Thomas LaRock...
2012-03-05
781 reads
A DBAs List of Little Things
Today is Meme Monday. Today we get to talk about all of the little things a DBA does. Thomas LaRock started things off with his list – here. I...
2012-03-05
6 reads
Are my Linked Servers Being Used?
This is a follow up to an article published on 3/1/2012. That article showed how to find what linked servers...
2012-03-05
2,697 reads
Are my Linked Servers Being Used?
This is a follow up to an article published on 3/1/2012. That article showed how to find what linked servers were created on your instance of SQL Server. You...
2012-03-05
18 reads
Linked Servers
Do you have linked servers that have been created in your environment? Do you know what these linked servers are?
Finding...
2012-03-01
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Blogs
No Shortcuts for the SQLCMD Batch Terminator: #SQLNewBlogger
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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
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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...
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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