The Value of Certifications
A former co-worker recently sent me an email asking about Microsoft certifications, and if I pursued them, and what I...
2013-02-05
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Blog Posts
Transactional Replication Toolbox Scripts: Show Articles And Columns For All Publications
During the last few years I've worked extensively with transactional replication and have written a handful of scripts that have...
2013-02-05 (first published: 2013-01-29)
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 4 (Scripting)
Welcome to Day 4 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-04
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Adding the Clustered Key To Your Nonclustered Index?
A colleague of mine was understandably confused when using the almost-perfect missing index engine in SQL 2008. The engine recommended he include...
2013-02-04
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Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Client
A little over six months ago, I wrote an article on Magenic.com about Excel 2013’s Impact for BI Users. This...
2013-02-04
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Frequently asked SQL Server Queries
Data to test:
CREATETABLE [dbo].[emp]( [emp_id]
[nchar](10)NULL, [emp_name]
[nchar](10)NULL, [salary]
[int] NULL)ON [PRIMARY] insert emp( emp_id,emp_name,salary ) select'1','ABC',-20000 insert emp( emp_id,emp_name,salary ) select'2','XYZ',-5000 insert emp( emp_id,emp_name,salary ) select'3','PQR',-7800 insert emp( emp_id,emp_name,salary...
2013-02-04
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How to Remove (Undo) Table Partitioning
I have seen plenty of articles and blog posts out there for how to setup and implement table partitioning, but...
2013-02-04 (first published: 2013-01-29)
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I hate Windows 8 and Microsoft Top 3 Mistakes
What do you think about Microsoft new Operating System? I hate Windows 8! This is the answer that many people...
2013-02-04
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Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #18
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out through out...
2013-02-04
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New DMO in Azure SQL Database: sys.dm_db_wait_stats
I just did a series of Boogle searches and when that didn’t find anything I tried Ging. Neither listed sys.dm_db_wait_stats....
2013-02-04
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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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Increment a number in a SQL Query based on a value
I have an issue where I have a Bill of Material list of items...
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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