A New Word: Incidental Contact High
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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Blog Posts
Creating a Test Pipeline in Azure DevOps using a Windows Agent
A customer was having some trouble getting started with Azure DevOps (AzDO) and building their database, so we took a step back and decided to create a simple test...
2024-09-06 (first published: 2024-08-21)
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Database CI/CD Basics (T-SQL Tuesday #177)
This month’s invitation is from Mala Mahadevan (b) asking us how we manage the database code. Since this is my passion project, I have a few basic tips to...
2024-09-06 (first published: 2024-08-13)
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Take the 2025 State of Database Landscape Survey
The survey is out now and you can share your experiences for a chance at $250 in Amazon vouchers. No matter whether you think your org is great or...
2024-09-06 (first published: 2024-09-05)
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Blockchain + RWAs
Blockchain technology is still at the hype stage for an emerging technology cycle, it gets a bad image from all the dodgy web3 “crypto” fake projects out there (based...
2024-09-05
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Developer Q&A: John Kostak of Web Dev USA
"We can really be dangerous if we want, without being too afraid of it."
2024-09-05
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How Learning SQL Basics Transformed My Productivity
As a data analyst, my switch from Excel to SQL was revolutionary. This article reveals how an online SQL basics course dramatically improved my workflow. I've always depended on...
2024-09-04
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Microsoft Fabric reference architecture
Microsoft Fabric uses a data lakehouse architecture, which means it does not use a relational data warehouse (with its relational engine and relational storage) and instead uses only a...
2024-09-04 (first published: 2024-08-12)
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SQL Saturday Boston 2024 Plans
I was accepted to speak at SQL Saturday Boston 2024, which is taking place on October 5, 2024. One month away. This is a fun event that takes place...
2024-09-04
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State of the Database Landscape Survey 2024
Hello all! This post is nothing but a simple request. Please, if you have a few spare minutes, meander on over to this link and fill out the State...
2024-09-04 (first published: 2024-08-13)
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Blogs
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Roundup
A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited...
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...
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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