On the Eleventh Day…
Yesterday we had an introduction into setting up a virtual lab to help the DBA learn and test new technologies while improving his/her own skill set. Today we will...
2012-12-24
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Blog Posts
On the Eleventh Day…
Yesterday we had an introduction into setting up a virtual lab to help the DBA learn and test new technologies...
2012-12-24
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On the Sixth Day…
What better way to kick off the sixth day of pre-Christmas than with six slices of foie-gras? No animals have...
2012-12-24 (first published: 2012-12-18)
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SQL Server # Moving MASTER database in cluster environment
Few months back I have wrote post about moving MASTER and MSDB database to new location in stand alone machine....
2012-12-24
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SQL Server Database File Size and Free Space
(There is a more up to date version of this script here.
Hey folks, and welcome to my first proper blog post. One of the things that I like to...
2012-12-24
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Twas The Week After Christmas - 2012 Edition
Season's Greetings and Merry Christmas! In the spirit of the holiday, I am rerunning my original parody on "Twas the...
2012-12-24
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Generate MERGE Statements for Your Tables
Today I’ll show you a special script which will let you “take a snapshot” of your table’s data, and apply...
2012-12-23
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How About a PASS Holiday Ornament?
One of the simpler pleasures in life is having an idea and putting it up for discussion. Not all ideas...
2012-12-23
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How to drop all tables in a SQL Server Database whose name begins with a common value
Scenario
I have discovered from working on projects that sometimes you may have to make use of temporary or staging tables...
2012-12-23
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On the Tenth Day…
Silver and Gold have a way of really bringing the look and feel of the Christmas season. Silver and Gold also seem to represent something of greater value. We...
2012-12-22
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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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Increment a number in a SQL Query based on a value
I have an issue where I have a Bill of Material list of items...
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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