Join me in Germany in June
I have been selected to speak at the DataGrillen conference later this year. I will be presenting my session How Does SQL Server Store That Data Type?, which I debuted during...
2022-01-26
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Blog Posts
Running Powershell code in Vim
I’ve been mucking about with Vim a bit recently and recently found myself (for reasons unknown tbh) writing powershell scripts in it. Once I’d written a script, I would...
2022-01-26 (first published: 2022-01-07)
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Daily Coping 25 Jan 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...
2022-01-25
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Tech Lunch News
Předminulou středu jsme opět poobědvali a zároveň si nasdíleli řadu novinek ze světa dat. Tak doufám, že příště dorazíte i vy! Můžete klidně i jen poslouchat, pokud vás novinky...
2022-01-25
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T-SQL query to change the job owners for all jobs owned by a specific login
Many SQL Server DBAs manage jobs through the SSMS GUI and do not know about the underlying T-SQL scripts being run. This blog shows how to u
2022-01-25
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A Quick Data Backup
The other day I was driving in the Tesla and clicked and Spotify application and chose a playlist. In this case, it was the “This is Stevie Wonder” playlist,...
2022-01-24
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Bulk Insert – Insights That Will Make You Drool
Bulk insert can be an extremely helpful tool to help ingest data into SQL Server efficiently. Sometimes, it is necessary to capture metrics in regards to the bulk insert...
2022-01-24 (first published: 2022-01-07)
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Daily Coping 24 Jan 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...
2022-01-24
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Discovering diagram of dependencies in Synapse Analytics and ADF pipelines
Documenting objects dependencies of ETL processes is a tough task. Regardless it is SSIS, ADF, pipelines in Azure Synapse or other systems. The reasons for understanding the current solution...
2022-01-24
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Discovering diagram of dependencies in Synapse Analytics and ADF pipelines
Documenting objects dependencies of ETL processes is a tough task. Regardless it is SSIS, ADF, pipelines in Azure Synapse or other systems. The reasons for understanding the current solution...
2022-01-24
10 reads
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