Reblog: December 14 to December 20
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-12-21
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Blog Posts
Recharging Again
I’m off again, taking a week in Steamboat Springs with my family for the Christmas holiday. We’re spending a week...
2012-12-21
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Tempdb Contention That Can’t be Soothed
Tempdb Contention That Can’t be Soothed By Adding Files
Tempdb Contention via Idera diagnostic manager
I’ve talked a lot in the past...
2012-12-21
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The Principle of Least Privilege
One of the tenets of good security is that no person or process is granted more rights than it needs...
2012-12-21 (first published: 2012-12-17)
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On the Eighth Day…
Today’s post is merely an illusion. The illusion being that we have finally stopped talking about the msdb database. I’ll explain about that later in this post. This should...
2012-12-20
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On the Eighth Day…
Today’s post is merely an illusion. The illusion being that we have finally stopped talking about the msdb database. I’ll...
2012-12-20
1,562 reads
PASS SQLRally Nordic 2012 videos online
All the videos for the sessions at PASS SQLRally Nordic 2012 are available for free. Lot’s of great BI info. Check...
2012-12-20
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Using XQuery to remove duplicate values or duplicate nodes from an xml instance
Sometimes we need to retrieve a list distinct values from within an xml instance or even distinct nodes and this...
2012-12-20 (first published: 2012-12-13)
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Active Directory Group Membership and Powershell
I’ve done my fair share of work with Active Directory over the years and LDAP has helped immensely, it did...
2012-12-19
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Find Nth highest salary using RANKING functions
Suppose you want to find nth highest salary from a table,Then
you can use DENSE_RANK() function.Here i show some example that...
2012-12-19
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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...
Forums
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