SQL Server Consulting: Weekly Round-up
The first full week in 2013 has been a a busy week for me with lots of SQL Server consulting...
2013-01-12
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Blog Posts
#SQLSaturdayExeter–Superb SQL Server Event
#SQLSaturday194 is coming to Exeter on the 8th – 9th March.
What is SQL Saturday? The brain child of Steve Jones,...
2013-01-11
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Day 10 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Monitoring for Corruption Errors
31 Days of Disaster Recovery
It’s day 10 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series, and I want to...
2013-01-11
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DBCC Memorystatus SQL2012 – A quick observation for node Process/System Counts
This post is not a detailed explanation of DBCC Memorystatus for SQL2012,but a quick observation I made recently for the...
2013-01-11
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Reblog: January 5 to January 11
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-01-11
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Rename the SQL Server Management Studio shortcut
Jorge Segarra (blog | twitter) was giving a presentation and he remarked on how the SQL Server Management Studio shortcuts have...
2013-01-11
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Scaling out SQLLunch UK
As you may be aware, I have been running a lunch time user group ‘SQLLunch UK’ having stolen drawn inspiration...
2013-01-11
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Six Degrees of SQL Saturday Fargo
Do you know anyone that lives in or around the great white north that is Fargo, North Dakota? If so,...
2013-01-11
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SQL Bits XI Registration is Now Open
Hi all,
registration to attend SQL Bits is now open.
http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1163518
There’s a 600 capacity limit and they anticipate it to fill rather quickly. More details can be found here:
http://sqlbits.com/
Hope to see...
2013-01-11
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SQL Server 2012 with SP1 Installation Step by Step Guide - Saving System Admins, DBAs, Developers and Support Technicians A Wee Bit O' Misery
Since the last guide was quite popular (over 4k distinct views for SQL Server 2008 R2), I've uploaded to SkyDrive...
2013-01-11
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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