The Best Computer
Hollywood does a great job of showing off technology that might be possible someday. This Friday Steve Jones wonders what amazing computer you'd like to have.
2008-12-19
248 reads
Steve Jones
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Learning Priorities
Steve Jones talks a bit about the value of learning for DBAs and other IT professionals.
2008-12-16
480 reads
Career Challenges - Database Weekly (Dec 15, 2008)
This week Steve Jones sees a lot of people talking about challenges in their career.
2008-12-15
244 reads
Simple Metadata
Tagging has become a new hot action for many people on the Internet, especially in the Web 2.0 social networking world. Steve Jones comes to a revelation about tagging and metadata.
2008-12-15
349 reads
Versioning Over Time
How do you handle the tracking of changes across time in a database? Not auditing, but the actual structural and schema changes. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with rapidly changing versions.
2008-12-11
358 reads
Alone Time
Working in a distributed team can be challenging, but working in an office can be just as difficult. Steve Jones talks a bit about time management today.
2008-12-10
174 reads
Getting Close to Physical - Database Weekly (Nov 8, 2008)
The performance of virtual machines is getting closer and closer to that of physical machines with better software like Hyper-V.
2008-12-08
245 reads
Just Keep Going and Going and Going
The upgrade treadmill might hit you in ways that you didn't expect.
2008-12-04
145 reads
The Energizer Bunny
Energizer, one of the world's leading battery manufacturers, is looking to have Microsoft host much of their infrastructure.
2008-12-03
130 reads
2008-12-02
207 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