SQLpassion Live Training about Query Tuning Fundamentals
On May 3, 2022 I will run an SQLpassion Live Training about SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals. If you have a database driven application which reacts very slowly when...
2022-04-04
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Blog Posts
SSAS getting message: “Unable to convert one or multiple M partitions into native source queries.”
The Issue Recently one of our team members faced the following issue: We have SSAS Tabular model deployed in DirectQuery mode taking data from MSSQL server database. Suddenly SSAS...
2022-04-04
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Tech Lunch News
Ve středu 9.3.2022 jsme se tradičně sešli nad novinkami ze světa dat, datových skladů, Power BI, Azure apod. Jestli jste chyběli (ale příště dorazíte, že? :D), zde je malý...
2022-04-04
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Two Years of “Good Morning!”
Two years ago at the start of the pandemic, I wasn’t feeling great about things. I saw that quite a few others weren’t all that thrilled about how things...
2022-04-04
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Daily Coping 1 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...
2022-04-01
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Power Automate – Returning the Last Day of the Month
Have you ever needed to set a property or field to the last day of the month? This is a common business problem that can
2022-04-01 (first published: 2022-03-25)
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Starting LocalDB–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Lots of people have never worked with LocalDB,...
2022-04-01 (first published: 2022-03-28)
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Daily Coping 31 Mar 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...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – Big Data Analytics with Azure Data Explorer
This blog pos illustrates how Azure Data Explorer and Azure Synapse Analytics complement each other for near real-time analytics and modern data warehousing use cases. This solution is already...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – create a database in our ADX cluster
In the previous blog post we created an Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster. In this blog post we will create a database that we will ingest data into, as...
2022-03-31
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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