Personal or Professional Ethics
Steve Jones had an interesting blog post the other day, Do as I Say, Not as I Do, and I...
2010-07-30
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Blog Posts
Presenting to the West Michigan SQL Server User Group / SQL PASS Chapter (Rescheduled)
Presenting to the West Michigan SQL Server User Group / SQL PASS Chapter (Rescheduled)
My presentation scheduled for earlier this week to...
2010-07-30
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Schedule Announced for SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando
Our schedule for this year has 47 one hour sessions plus another 6 “mini” fifteen minute presentations, plus a separate...
2010-07-30
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SQL University – Other Capacity Issues
This is the final lecture this week at SQL University. We are covering the topic of capacity planning this week...
2010-07-30
2,655 reads
SSC Editorial: Becoming Highly Productive
This editorial is about the idea of being highly productive more than how to actually accomplish it. Most of us...
2010-07-30
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Ambiguities and the wild object.oriented brigades
--Whilst trying to design a more effective way of detecting dependencies in a SQL Server database, I was mulling over...
2010-07-29
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Checking Users AD Groups Using Windows CMD
Blog Title: Checking Users AD Groups Using Windows CMD
Depending on your role in the organization, there may be a time...
2010-07-29
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Commenting TSQL Scripts
If you have ever searched for “commenting in TSQL” scripts, I am sure that you’ve found hundreds or maybe even...
2010-07-29
1,766 reads
Finding Key Lookups In Cached Execution Plans
Ask anyone with performance tuning experience to list the most expensive operations in an execution plan and it's a safe...
2010-07-29
5,343 reads
Help Build the SQLRally Speaker/Topic Selection Process – Part 1
Last week we announced PASS SQLRally, the new event that we’ll be holding in May 2011 in Orlando (aka the...
2010-07-29
704 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...
Forums
Increment a number in a SQL Query based on a value
I have an issue where I have a Bill of Material list of items...
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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