Daily Coping 23 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to build new ideas by thinking “Yes, and what if…”. I tend to look for the holes, problems, limitations, and downside of various proposals. I’ve...
2022-11-23
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Blog Posts
Testing the code (T-SQL Tuesday #156)
Foreword
Even though I picked the question, I struggled to answer it.
Following my train of thought - production code should be of the highest quality. To enforce quality, we use...
2022-11-23 (first published: 2022-11-08)
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What is production grade code? : T-SQL Tuesday #156
It’s that time of the month again! It’s T-SQL Tuesday and this month Tom Zika (blog|twitter) is hosting. Tom would ... Continue reading
2022-11-23 (first published: 2022-11-08)
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Daily Coping 22 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to do something playful outdoors. Easy. Skiing today. First day of the season. I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQL Server...
2022-11-22
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Daily Coping 21 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to revisit a coping tip from the past and see if it helped you.. I came up with this one after I tried to do...
2022-11-21
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Leaving (or minimizing) Twitter
Fairly short post here. Due to the recent events around Twitter (which I will not get into), I’m making an effort to reduce or completely cease my activity on...
2022-11-21
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Sale on SQL Server 2022 Query Performance Tuning
Just a quick post to let you know that there’s a great sale right now at Springer on my brand new, completely rewritten, query performance tuning book. Get your...
2022-11-21
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SQL Temporal Tables — Gotcha!!!
Hello, again reader… Today, I will discuss a gotcha I ran across with SQL Server Temporal Tables. In my day-to-day environment, we do not use Temporal Tables widely. However,...
2022-11-21 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 11-14-2022 Live! 360
Hello Dear Reader! Last week was a week we have been building towards since the launch of Tales from the Field. My favorite conference every single year, Live! 360. ...
2022-11-21
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Where Is My SQL Server Errorlog?
If you need to find the SQL Server ErrorLog in a hurry and don’t want to spend 30 minutes drilling into every drive on the server: “I don’t watch...
2022-11-21 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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Blogs
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...
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
By davebem
I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...
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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