Looking Forward to the New Year - Professional Goals
Most folks make New Year's resolutions of things they want to do over the course of the next 364/365 days....
2013-01-01
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Blog Posts
My 2012 Year
What a wild year this has been. There have been ups and downs, but the ups have been incredible. To...
2013-01-01
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Re-awarded MVP status for 2013
I received notification that I have received the Microsoft MVP award for 2013, my fourth consecutive year to receive this...
2013-01-01
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Re-awarded MVP status for 2013
I received notification that I have received the Microsoft MVP award for 2013, my fourth consecutive year to receive this...
2013-01-01
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VCAP5-DCA study guide is now available
Paul Grevink has released a great study guide for the VMware VCAP5-DCA exam. It’s available here! I’ll be using it...
2013-01-01
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2012 Blog Statistics in Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every...
2012-12-31
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2012 in review !
Year 2012 was super special for me in many ways. Made lot of new friends, Attended SQLPASS Summit 2012 and had...
2012-12-31
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Building a Full Text Index
I hadn’t used full-text indexing in production throughout my career. We hadn’t had the need in the applications I worked...
2012-12-31 (first published: 2012-12-19)
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December Top 4 Popular Posts
It is Monday today but its no ordinary Monday. Today is New Years Eve, its the end of December and...
2012-12-31
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Fragmentation in SQL Server
Fragmentation:- Fragmentation can be defined as condition where data is stored in a non continuous manner. In can be defined into...
2012-12-31
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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