How to prevent ‘Select *’ : The elegant way
UPDATE 2012-09-12 For my latest adventures with TSQL Parsers please see this post.
I’ve been doing a lot of work with the...
2012-08-09
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Blog Posts
Lenovo’s Cancellation Policy is not consumer-friendly
I recently placed an order for a ThinkPad W530 from Lenovo. One day before the estimated shipping date, I noticed...
2012-08-09
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Nacho Mama’s Training Class
That is what I wanted to name the new training series that we developed at my employer, Perpetual Technologies (PTI.net)....
2012-08-09
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Service pack Native Client, SQL XML4 and VSSWriter failed
One of my client accidentally executed a 32 bit service pack on a 64 bit SQL Server, the service Pack...
2012-08-09
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SQL Server : Implementation of Table Valued Parameter (TVP)
Some time there will be situation in application , where a
grid is populated with data and user has option to edit...
2012-08-09 (first published: 2012-08-01)
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SQLSaturday 159 - KC Can Sure Throw a SQL Saturday!
This past weekend was SQLSaturday159 - Kansas City. I drove down with my wife and our sons (2 years old and...
2012-08-09
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Using a Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC) on SQL Server
Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC) allows administrators emergency access to SQL Server via SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or via command...
2012-08-09
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Working With Compliance
Most larger and all publicly held companies will have some sort of compliance team – often a few varieties, ranging from...
2012-08-09
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Cost Savings and Backup Compression
Let me set the scene, one of our internal IT SQL Servers which stores a whole host of performance metrics...
2012-08-08
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How many SQL Servers you run within your environment ? – MAP could be your best bet to answer this question !
A blog post about Microsoft Assessment Planning Toolkit was in my list for quite a while and today I decided to write...
2012-08-08
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Blogs
Where Is My SQL Agent? Running Scheduled Jobs Against Azure SQL Database
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One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server...
AgentDBA vs Critical SQL Server
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It’s 07:43. Someone’s already left a message. “Something’s wrong with the DB server.” You...
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
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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