Reblog from Brent Ozar: Designing a Data Model for Gender and Sexuality (Oh And Also, I’m Pansexual)
This is a repost of a blog by Brent Ozar. I seriously doubt anyone reading this post hasn’t seen Brent’s ... Continue reading
2022-05-25
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Blog Posts
Reblog from Brent Ozar: Designing a Data Model for Gender and Sexuality (Oh And Also, I’m Pansexual)
This is a repost of a blog by Brent Ozar. I seriously doubt anyone reading this post hasn’t seen Brent’s ... Continue reading
2022-05-25
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Techorama 2022 – Session Materials
You can find my slidedeck for the session “Introduction to Azure Data Factory” on Github:https://github.com/KoenVerbeeck/SessionMaterials All demos given in the session are explained in the ADF tutorial at MSSQLTips.com.
The...
2022-05-25
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Visualizing SQL
While I think SQL is interesting, I know some people struggle with the way the language work. Someone at work posted a link to this site: https://animatesql.com/ I think...
2022-05-25 (first published: 2022-04-18)
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Daily Coping 24 May 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-05-24
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New Extended Events in SQL Server 2022
SQL Server 2022 CTP is here
It has been announced today (2022-05-24) during the MS Build event. The blog post includes a download link. Unfortunately, the Docker container is...
2022-05-24
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Notes on SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2022
I drove up to Jacksonville Friday afternoon to allow for bad traffic and immediately hit bad traffic, all four lanes of I-4 blocked that resulted in a 30 minute...
2022-05-24
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TSQL Tuesday #150: Your first technical job. Rollup.
This months subject for T-SQL Tuesday was Your first technical job. I have to say I really really enjoyed reading ... Continue reading
2022-05-24
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Daily Coping 23 May 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-05-23
41 reads
Microsoft Graph API in Power Automate: Adding Users to Private Teams Channels
This is video four in a four-part series walking you through how to leverage the Microsoft Graph API within Power Automate. In this video, Devin
2022-05-23 (first published: 2022-05-10)
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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