Speaking at SQL Saturday 122 - Louisville
It has been a great couple of months for both me and for Perpetual Technologies (my employer). PTI has been...
2012-07-09
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Blog Posts
SQL Audit 101 – Creating a basic audit
SQL Audit was introduced in SQL 2008, and for the first time auditing was treated as a “first-class” object in...
2012-07-09
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SQL Internals Reading Data Records Part 6: Variable Length Data
Welcome back Dear Reader to Part 6 on our series of how to read a Data Record. In Part 1...
2012-07-09
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Writing About SQL Server
I. Introduction I recently submitted my entry for a writing competition as part of my continuing education. While I was...
2012-07-09
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A Pattern for PIVOT
Use of the PIVOT operator in T-SQL has always been tantalizing yet confounding to me. It offers the promise of...
2012-07-08
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Baton Rouge SQLSaturday #150 & Tech Day–DBA 1 track
August 4th of this year will be the forth annual Baton Rouge SQL Saturday and Tech Day. Patrick LeBlanc got...
2012-07-08
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Identifying Long Running SQL Agent Jobs Script
I’m usually pretty hesitant to share scripts I write because inevitably it will get torn to pieces, but in this...
2012-07-08
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Securing Database Contents with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Introduction
Microsoft SQL Server has many security features available within the database, but until release of SQL Server 2008 there has...
2012-07-08
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SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries (July 2012)
Here is the latest version of my SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements to...
2012-07-08
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5 Reasons Why I Need To Go To SQLskills Immersion Training
I was thinking about the contest that SQL Sentry is running for a week of SQLskills Immersion Training, and the...
2012-07-07
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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