SQL Saturday Advice - Communicate Often
It seems that Thursdays are becoming SQL Saturday day here at my blog. I wrote a few posts about SQL...
2010-07-29
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday #40 is Almost Here – July 31, 2010
I’ll be leaving Friday morning with my family to go to Miramar, Fla, for the 2nd annual SQLSaturday there. I’m...
2010-07-29
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The Dangers of Sub-queries!!!!
Ok, now that I have your attention this really should be titled the danger of not qualifying all objects, but...
2010-07-29
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The Killer Backslash in TSQL
--it is
quite startling to see that this, in TSQL, executes.
Select \
/*
---------------------
0.00
(1
row(s) affected)
so does
this....
*/
Select null /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
/*
---------------------
NULL
(1
row(s) affected)...
2010-07-29
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What Indexes are on My Table!
In this quick blog, I want to show you one way of how to find out what indexes you have on a table...
2010-07-29
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2010 3rd Quarter Goals
Now that we are into the third quarter of 2010 I decided to post an update of my 2nd quarter...
2010-07-28
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Interviewed by Andy Leonard
Andy Leonard is posting interviews of all the candidates PASS Board of Directors on his blog and mine is up...
2010-07-28
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Interviewing for the PASS Board of Directors
My nomination application made it through the committee. I got an email yesterday telling me that I needed to schedule...
2010-07-28
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MDX Puzzle #4
This puzzle is rather simple, but it does introduce a few new things. Using T-SQL you typically filter queries with...
2010-07-28
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PASS 2010 Summit on LinkedIn Event Calendar – Have You RSVP’d?
Happened to notice in my weekly LinkedIn update today that Todd McDermid had signed up for the 2010 Summit event...
2010-07-28
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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...
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