Colorado Wildfires
More than a few people have asked how I’m doing with all the fires in Colorado, so I wanted to...
2012-07-02
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Blog Posts
Comparing DirectQuery and ROLAP for real-time access
In the multidimensional model in SSAS, there is a storage mode called relational OLAP (ROLAP), which is the multidimensional solution...
2012-07-02
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Guest Post: SQL Server Installation Error by David Postlethwaite
A strange SQL installation error with even a stranger solution
This week I was installing SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer onto...
2012-07-02
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July Question: If you could pick your manager, what ideal qualities would he or she have?
I think all of us have had poor, good, and great managers at one time or another in our career....
2012-07-02
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syscacheobjects
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-02
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Maintenance Plan Owner
We all inherit things from time to time through our profession. Sometimes we inherit some good things, sometimes we inherit...
2012-07-02 (first published: 2012-06-25)
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Querying Information from the Plan Cache, Simplified
One of the great things about the Dynamic Management Objects (DMOs) that expose the information in plan cache is that,...
2012-07-02
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RSS pubDate format in SQL Server
Today I had to write T-SQL code to convert date into very specific date format (Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:24:05...
2012-07-02
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Speaker Selection for SQLSaturday Orlando-Group #3
So far we’ve selected 8 speakers for SQLSaturday #151 in Orlando this year (see Group #1 and Group #2), today...
2012-07-02
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Three reasons for normalization
In this article we cover three reasons for normalization (from our point of view). We created the article and included...
2012-07-02
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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