It’s Another 24 Hours of PASS
With the upcoming PASS Business Analytics Conference, it only makes sense for there to be a 24 Hours of PASS...
2012-12-27
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Blog Posts
PASS Summit 2012 session videos online
If you are interested in viewing the recorded sessions for the PASS Summit 2012, you can order them on a USB flash...
2012-12-27
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Predictions for 2013
I’m on holiday, but I have a set of predictions for 2013 coming on Jan 1. This is a little...
2012-12-27
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Red errors in the results pane
Most DBAs have seen those nice clear red errors in the results pane. And I’m sure most DBAs have noticed...
2012-12-27 (first published: 2012-12-19)
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Big Data - An Introduction to Pig
In my previous article, I have explained Big Data and Hadoop in details. In this article I would like to go little deeper with Pig. Pig is a high-level...
2012-12-26
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Big Data: An Introduction with Hive
Hive is a data warehouse system for Hadoop that facilitates easy data summarization, ad-hoc queries, and the analysis of large...
2012-12-26
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FOR XML Clause
FOR XML CLAUSE: Sometimes we need to data in form of XML from
Database.SQL Server provide FOR XML Clause. For XML clause...
2012-12-26
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NULL Values Impact the Performance of MAX() and MIN()
We know that we need to take special attention about NULL values while writing queries because they may lead us into...
2012-12-26
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Querying the Procedural Cache: Just in Time for the New Years’
I sincerely wish that everyone enjoyed their recent holidays and recent downtime with family, and pass on my hope for...
2012-12-26
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SSIS Precedence Constraint Tutorial
Recently we decided to create a series of videos for our SSIS Precedence Constraint Tutorial which is part of our...
2012-12-26 (first published: 2012-12-18)
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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