NomCom, what it’s all about
I submitted my application for the NomCom last week and the polls opened up yesterday. I’ve seen an amazing amount...
2012-06-14
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Blog Posts
PASS Data Architecture VC presents Neil Hambly–Improve Data Quality & Integrity using Constraint
Tuesday’s (June 19th, 2012) PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter has Neil talks about database design that uses Constraints for Integrity...
2012-06-14
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Running for the #SQLPass #NomCom
Guess, what? I’ve thrown my hat in to the elections for the Nomination Committee for PASS. That means that I...
2012-06-14
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@LearningTree: 2108 SQL Server 2012 Database Administration
This past week my international adventures have continued. As some of you know, for the past couple of years, I...
2012-06-13
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Command Line Prompts for Checking Active Directory Membership
Using Active Directory groups are a great way to manage and maintain security for a solution. Think about if you...
2012-06-13
1,902 reads
Database Tables
Today I was asked for "a list of all tables in all databases" on a particular instance of SQL Server. ...
2012-06-13
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Guest Post – The Last Starfighter
Today I am delighted to be able to share with you a guest post from one of my all time...
2012-06-13
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PASS 2012 NomCom
I’m officially on the slate and running for the PASS 2012 Nomination Committee!
I love the SQL Community and everything it embodies. ...
2012-06-13
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PASS Nomination Committee
For some reason, which isn’t completely clear to me, we’re voting for part of the members of the Nomination Committee...
2012-06-13
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Service Broker: What does a DBA need to know?
Service Broker is SQL Server’s internal messaging system. It has been designed as an asynchronous, reliable and transactional messaging system...
2012-06-13 (first published: 2012-06-07)
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Blogs
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Roundup
A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited...
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...
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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