Blueprint for consulting riches
As a business intelligence architect consultant, I have met many people out there who are as good or better than...
2012-07-09
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Blog Posts
Dynamic Multi-Threaded SSIS using C#
Here is a snippet of code that will assist in the dynamic ‘spin-up’ of duplicate SSIS packages. To put it...
2012-07-09
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First SQL Server UG Meeting in Harrisburg, PA
If you work with SQL Server and live in the Harrisburg area I have some great news for you. The...
2012-07-09
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Group Think (or Groupthink)
I’ve thought about writing on this topic a couple times and was reminded of it again when I read a...
2012-07-09
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Identify and Alert for Long-Running Agent Jobs
Being a DBA is like being a train conductor. One of the biggest responsibilities is making sure all jobs are...
2012-07-09
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysdatabases
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-09
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Moving xml child elements to its parent using XQuery
I haven’t been able to do much XQuery development recently which is a shame as I love developing with the...
2012-07-09
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Lesson 1: – Basic Architecture Overview
I’ll begin my coverage of Microsoft’s Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) architecture / appliance with a brief overview of the Massively Parallel...
2012-07-09
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Purging MSDB Backup and Restore History Tables
Today while checking our database growth reports, I noticed that size of msdb database on most of our SQL Server...
2012-07-09
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Speaker Selection for SQLSaturday Orlando-Group #5
Three more added to the stellar slate of speakers for SQLSaturday Orlando, we look forward to seeing you soon!
Ira Whiteside
Devin...
2012-07-09
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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