Using New Horizontal/Vertical Tab Groups
This isn’t really one of those features of SSMS that I’ve used a great deal. At least didn’t until recently....
2013-01-17 (first published: 2013-01-14)
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Blog Posts
A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 3: Decision Trees
by Steve Bolton
This series of self-tutorials is an elementary-level introduction to SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM), not the product...
2013-01-16
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Chad Churchwell: Protect Your Replication Environment with AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Heads up everyone. Next Tuesday January 22nd, 2013 Chad Churchwell (blog | twitter) will be presenting a webinar on behalf of...
2013-01-16
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Day 14 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Fixing a Corrupt Tempdb
Welcome to day 14 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series. I’ve previously discussed handling corruption for nonclustered indexes...
2013-01-16
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Execution Plans on Azure SQL Database Portal
If you’ve been working with the Azure SQL Database portal, you know that you have a query window. Within the...
2013-01-16 (first published: 2013-01-14)
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New Year Ambitions – Brent Ozar – Consulting
You are of course someone who needs little introduction in the SQL Server community. A prolific blogger, tweeter, speaker, Microsoft...
2013-01-16
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SQL Server Auto grow
I had a great response to my blog post and poll last week about how DBAs use auto grow. In...
2013-01-16
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SSIS Top 10 Best Practices Basics
Best Practice is a difficult one... It generally depends on many factors. In my opinion SSIS Best practice is a...
2013-01-16
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You Can Say “No”
I heard about this new law that was passed to prevent employers from asking for your social media passwords. After...
2013-01-16
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Day 13 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Standard Backup Scripts
31 Days of Disaster Recovery
Today’s post took longer to prepare than I had anticipated which is why day 13...
2013-01-15
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Blogs
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...
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...
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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