Speaking at SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2022
SQL Saturday is coming back to Jacksonville this May. I’m excited to go as I’ve like the city, but I’ve never been to this particular SQL Saturday. On May...
2022-04-07
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 6 Apr 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...
2022-04-06
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Flyway Mistakes
I have been doing some testing with Redgate’s Flyway Desktop as a new way of managing code for databases. However, just like Git, I appreciate clients, but I want...
2022-04-06 (first published: 2022-03-21)
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If I can’t use PWDENCRYPT, how am I supposed to use HASHBYTES?
For this week, here is a short post about reinventing the wheel. An interesting conversation happened on Twitter where Dave Dustin asked: “Does anybody have an example of using...
2022-04-06
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Power Automate – Date Expression Basics
In this new video series, Devin focuses on working with Power Automate Date Expressions. This first video is a primer to cover the basics of
2022-04-06 (first published: 2022-03-23)
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Removing a LocalDB Instance
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This might be obvious and easy, but I...
2022-04-06
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Daily Coping 5 Apr 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...
2022-04-05
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WITDC Mental Health and Wellness Day- April 8th
This Friday WITDC is having another Mental Health and Wellness Day virtual event and I’m part of a panel! This ... Continue reading
2022-04-05
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WITDC Mental Health and Wellness Day- April 8th
This Friday WITDC is having another Mental Health and Wellness Day virtual event and I’m part of a panel! This ... Continue reading
2022-04-05
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A Day Off(ish)
I usually don’t post too many things about breaks, but I think that might be a bit of a mistake. I’ve struggled to get away from work at times,...
2022-04-04
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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