Physical Servers What are They?
Today I'm in the process of installing some physical servers. To put this into perspective due to the companies I...
2011-11-09
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Blog Posts
PreCon–SQL Saturday Tampa
I recently had a great opportunity to present a preconference all day event in Tampa with the crew from the...
2011-11-09
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Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed
A few weeks ago one of our clustered server nodes blue-screened and when it came back on SQL refused to start. I started digging in and this is what...
2011-11-09
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Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed
A few weeks ago one of our clustered server nodes blue-screened and when it came back on SQL refused to...
2011-11-09
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Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed
A few weeks ago one of our clustered server nodes blue-screened and when it came back on SQL refused to start. I started digging in and this is what...
2011-11-09
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SQL Inspiration 3-days away! Last Chance! Registration CLOSING TODAY!!
Happy, Wednesday folks! We're 3-days away from SQLInspiration, and that is the event we've been reading about for some months...
2011-11-09
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SQL University: Advanced Indexing – Filtered Indexes
Welcome back to day 2 of Advanced Indexing. Today we’re going to look at a feature that was added in...
2011-11-09
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Top 5 Third Party Quotes
Unless you’ve worked in a vacuum the likelyhood is that you either are a third company or you have many...
2011-11-09
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Why does my SSIS package run slower in BIDS than DTEXEC?
If you have been creating SSIS packages in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) for any length of time, you have...
2011-11-09
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A view has no data
I have seen quite a few posts and questions lately from people that are trying to change the data in...
2011-11-08
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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...
Forums
Increment a number in a SQL Query based on a value
I have an issue where I have a Bill of Material list of items...
Follow Your Hunch
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What Happens When You Ask a Local AI to Query Your Database?
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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