SQLBits XI Dates Announced
SQLBits XI has been announced for the 2-4th of May 2013. Having taken place in London this year, it is moving back North to the Midlands at the East...
2012-12-31
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Blog Posts
vSphere 5.1 Performance Statistic History Bug
I just discovered a few posts calling out a bug in the vSphere 5.1 vCenter performance statistic rollup procedure for...
2012-12-31
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Welcome 2013
HappyNewYear2013
May this new year bring lots of Happiness in all of your life. Let welcome 2013 together with lots of...
2012-12-31
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Wrapping Up 2012
Looking back at 2012 I feel like I’ve written less than I planned to, and in some ways done less...
2012-12-31
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Wrapping Up 2012
Last year, I did a wrap up post of the year to see where I landed from where I wanted...
2012-12-31
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Introduction to Hekaton Part One: MVCC
Hello folks, welcome to a post focusing on one of the future features of SQL Server. SQL Server 2012 is barely a year old, yet there is already talk...
2012-12-30
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SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition Licensing Limits
As you might be aware, SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition has some hardware-related licensing limits that I think should be...
2012-12-29
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TempDB Destroyer
One of my previous posts, I covered how to create a really big database with just garbage data in it....
2012-12-29
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Test Hadoop cluster on vmware
SQL Server MVP Jeremiah Peschka posted 2 articles about Hadoop, which makes me be interested on the nosql skill.
I don't have much knowledge...
2012-12-29
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Closing the Results Window in SSMS
This is a guest post by David Postlethwaite.
I’ve been wondering how to do this for years. At SQL Bits and...
2012-12-28
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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