Full documentation on the Undercover Catalogue can be found HERE We’ve spotted a bug in the Databases module where an unprintable ASCII character was being inserted at the beginning of...
2024-09-12
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As part of my job, I needed to research how a few things work with Synapse and Fabric. The latter includes the former, mostly. I decided to setup a...
2024-09-11 (first published: 2024-08-26)
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Are you ready to have conversations with your data? Announced in public preview within Microsoft Fabric is AI Skill, a new capability in Fabric that allows you to build...
2024-09-11 (first published: 2024-08-26)
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With my new laptop, one of the things I realized I’d forgotten to do in setup is reserve some space. I wrote about this years ago, but I wanted...
2024-09-11
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This month we have a good invitation from Deepthi Goguri, where she asks us about a technical problem. I think most of are technical people and we solve problems...
2024-09-10
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2024-09-10
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I was privileged to host yet another T-SQL Tuesday, for the month of August, 2024. My topic was on Managing database code. I was worried about getting responses, given...
2024-09-09 (first published: 2024-08-18)
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Yeah, stupid long title. It’s a question I put to several different AI engines. I’m curious what the aggregated knowledge of the internet has to say on the topic...
2024-09-09 (first published: 2024-08-19)
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First Things First Thanks to every who came to my session, Asnwering the Auditor’s Call with Automation. Slides and scripts are posted to my Github.
The Event! This was Syracuse’s...
2024-09-08
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incidental contact high – n. an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job – a barber, yoga instructor, or friendly waitress – that you find more meaningful than...
2024-09-06
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A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited...
By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
By gbargsley
One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server...
I have an issue where I have a Bill of Material list of items...
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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