When good enough is good enough
Any time I’ve learned about the optimizer there is always one important thing that’s brought up. The optimizer is not ... Continue reading
2022-08-30
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Blog Posts
AWS RDS Restore To A Point In Time
The single most important part of backups are not backups. The single most important part of backups are restores. It doesn’t matter a lick if you have 100, flawless...
2022-08-29
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Daily Coping 29 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-29
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Power BI guidance documentation
Recently there has been a number of great articles published on Power BI that I wanted to make you aware of that go beyond the features descriptions found in...
2022-08-29 (first published: 2022-08-09)
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Setting up SQL Server 2022 s3 Object Storage Integration using MinIO with Docker Compose
In this blog post, I’ve implemented two example environments for using SQL Server 2022’s s3 object integration. One for backup and restore to s3 compatible object storage and the...
2022-08-29 (first published: 2022-08-13)
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Daily Coping 26 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-26
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T-SQL Tuesday #153: The Thing That Changed Everything for Me – SQLFamily
Kevin Kline (b | t) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and it is to “Tell us the story of how attending an IT conference or event
The post T-SQL Tuesday #153:...
2022-08-26 (first published: 2022-08-09)
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T-SQL Tuesday 153: The conference that changed everything
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by my dear friend Kevin Kline (b | t) . Kevin’s call is for us to ‘Tell us the story of how attending an IT conference or...
2022-08-26 (first published: 2022-08-09)
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Daily Coping 25 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-25
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Explicit and implicit datatype conversions
Did you know that 1/2=0? If you didn’t you could be in for some interesting surprises. 1/2 returns 0 because ... Continue reading
2022-08-25
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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