A Bit of a SQL Saturday 99 Update…
I’ve been a bit busy while planning this year’s SQL Saturday in Minnesota. Unfortunately, that hasn’t led to a lot...
2011-10-26
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Blog Posts
Applied SQL: Demonstrate Simple Backup and Restore
Let’s apply a little backup and restore knowledge, eh wot?
I introduce this whole concept in Applied SQL: You Have Homework....
2011-10-26
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Buckets for Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery can be a huge project at any company. Considering the ways in which you build a plan that...
2011-10-26
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Dimensional Modeling Financial Data in SSAS
Part 1 – Parent Child Hierarchies and Pseudo GL Accounts
This post is born out of some real life lessons that I...
2011-10-26
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I’m a winner!
Actually, I only submitted the winning entry; Denali CTP3 SQL Server 2012 is the real winner. After having a blog...
2011-10-26
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Miss TechEd Australia 2011? No problem, all videos are online
As you may know, the TechEd in the U.S. is not the only one. There have been many all over the...
2011-10-26
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SQLInspireNYC - You can still REGISTER for FREE! - Embarcadero Give-a-way
You may have missed the big announcement yesterday on SQLServerCentral.com, that thanks to one of our great event sponsors, Red Gate, we...
2011-10-26
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SSAS – Deployment Wizard
The Analysis Services Deployment Wizard is an often under utilized but important tool when moving your OLAP database throughout your...
2011-10-26
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Watch those VARCHAR(MAX) columns, and ONLINE index rebuilds
G’day,
I’ve noted a few instances lately of cases where VARCHAR(MAX) columns have been used unnecessarily, when a small value (for a...
2011-10-26
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Import MS Best Practice Policies
Let’s take a look at how to import the Microsoft Best Practice Policies into your Policy Based Management Server. You...
2011-10-25
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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