Financial Advice for Techies
I’m not writing a post here on how to manage your money, but I will point you to Troy Hunt’s...
2019-02-22 (first published: 2019-02-01)
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Steve Jones
- Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball
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2019-02-22
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Treat All Sensitive Data as Important
No matter what the reason you have sensitive information, you need to treat it carefully.
2019-02-21
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2019-02-21
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2019-02-20
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SQL in the City 2019 in London
We’ve started setting up our SQL in the City Summits for 2019 and the first one is London on April...
2019-02-20
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2019-02-20
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Do You Have a SQL Server Estate?
At Redgate, we do a lot of research. Maybe not as much as Microsoft Research, but we are always trying...
2019-02-19
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How Perfect Should Our Software Be?
Steve talks about the level of engineering effort we need in software development.
2019-02-19
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Learning about DML Triggers
Triggers can be confusing and complex for many developers new to SQL. Steve Jones gives a few ideas for learning more about this construct as well as practicing writing them.
2019-02-19
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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