A Better Braindump (#mcm #mcmstudy)
I’m studying my butt off for the soon-to-be-deprecated Microsoft Certified Master cert’s lab – and the three unfinished prerequisite certs I’ve...
2013-09-05
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Blog Posts
A T-SQL query to get current job activity
I recently had the task of collecting job activity for the purposes of turning it into a report for some...
2013-09-05
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Actual Emails: TL;DR: Stop using varchar(max)
Wrote this email recently to a crew of developers who were shooting themselves in the foot with a database rich...
2013-09-05 (first published: 2013-09-03)
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Free Tools For The DBA
In this post we will look at 5 free tools that I use on a daily basis, I'll give a...
2013-09-05
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Introduction to Integrity: Corruption in Allocation Pages
Welcome back for day two of this six part series Introduction to Integrity, sponsored by Idera. In this post, I...
2013-09-05
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Is Microsoft attempting to "de-skill" IT Pros in its attempt to increase its Cloud business?
When I first heard of the MCM program termination discontent, I reacted by sympathizing with my fellow Database Professionals but...
2013-09-05
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Job: SQL Server DBA (Permanent UK)
A client of mine are looking for a good SQL Server DBA on a permanent basis, the location is flexible...
2013-09-05
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Log Backup Failing–A Simple Mistake
Last week I was checking on some stuff and noticed that a couple databases were in simple mode – unusual, but...
2013-09-05
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Not so good news for MCM Aspirants
Few days back, late Friday (30th August 2013) MS has made an announcement – that they are cancelling the MCM Certification,...
2013-09-05
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sp_executesql, Parameters and Parameter Sniffing
I’m honestly not crazy about dynamic T-SQL within stored procedures. There are just a few too many opportunities to mess...
2013-09-05
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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