Recipe 4: Sending Alerts via Email
Welcome to the latest recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-03-16 (first published: 2022-02-25)
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Blog Posts
s5cmd Authentication Using Enviroment Variables
At work, I get to work with some fantastic tech that pushes the boundaries of performance. I needed to do some performance testing from a Windows server into a...
2022-03-16 (first published: 2022-02-24)
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You can’t secure your network with spite
I wrote a post a couple weeks ago about not changing port 1433 for security reasons. I received this comment, which is not visible on that page because it...
2022-03-16
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Daily Coping 15 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...
2022-03-15
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How to Logon Interactively with a Group Managed Service Account
Managed Service Accounts (MSA) are intended to run as a service and not to be used by an end user to logon interactively; however, there are some cases where...
2022-03-15
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Shift calculations (or same time every day)
One of the more interesting jobs I’ve had over the years was for a company that created emergency room software. ... Continue reading
2022-03-15
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Changing the Owner of a Database #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I had an authorization issue with my account,...
2022-03-14
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Creating Dynamic LinkedIn Share Links with Power Automate
In this video, Devin wraps up this 3 part Power Automate video series by showing you how to make dynamics Linkedin share links so you
2022-03-14
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Daily Coping 14 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...
2022-03-14
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Execution Plan Properties
I’ve watched several people recently go straight to XML when reading execution plans because they didn’t know about the execution plan properties in the first operator. Now, don’t get...
2022-03-14
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Blogs
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...
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...
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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