The Mentoring Experiment–New Call for Mentees
With both Steve Jones and I done with our summer break, we’re ready to continue with several experiments we’ve been...
2012-07-23 (first published: 2012-07-19)
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Blog Posts
Windows Cluster: Moving Quorum Disk to Another Node
In my earlier post I have explained about various quorum settings available in Microsoft windows 2008 cluster environment. While we plan to...
2012-07-23
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Cycling is good for you
It’s been a great day for British cycling with Bradley Wiggins becoming the first Briton to ever win the Tour...
2012-07-22
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How to use PowerPivot in Excel 2013
In previous lessons we create basic PowerPivot model now it is time to see how it looks in Excel 2013...
2012-07-22
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PASS Data Architecture presents Ami Levin: Where Are My (Primary) Keys?
I saw Ami Levin at the PASS Summit 2011 presenting on Loop Iterators in Execution Plans. It was on my...
2012-07-22
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PowerPivot create relationships
We continue creating our PowerPivot model using Excel 2013 by adding relationships. We use two methods "manage relationships" dialog box...
2012-07-22
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PowerPivot import data from SQL Server
In this tutorial we start creating PowerPivot model in Excel 2013 (very similar in 2010) by importing data from our...
2012-07-22
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Redirecting a page on WordPress
WordPress creates a unique link for each of your post. They are broken out with your URL then YYYY / MM...
2012-07-22
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South Florida IT Pro Camp 2012 Presentation
Presentation and scripts from my Storing PowerShell Output session at South Florida IT Pro Camp 2012.
2012-07-22
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Support from Atlanta MDF
I have recently been notified that my neighboring SQL PASS Chapter Atlanta MDF will be sponsoring SQL Saturday 167 in...
2012-07-22
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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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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