Pillbox Application
Ran across Pillbox in Government Computing News (GCN), a web app that lets you identify what a pill is based...
2010-07-27
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Blog Posts
Powershell Remoting with SQL Server
One of the best things to come out with Powershell V2 is remoting and asynchronous calls. Between the two of...
2010-07-27
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Presenting at SQLSaturday #40 – South Florida
I'M ON A BOAT!
This is just a quick note to say that I’ll be in South Florida this weekend presenting...
2010-07-27
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Slack Traveler
I realized over the weekend that I hadn’t booked a hotel for my SQL Saturday #28 trip to Baton Rouge....
2010-07-27
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #40 – South Florida
I finally get to head down to Miramar to speak at SQLSaturday #40 – South Florida. I really wanted to go...
2010-07-27
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SQL Saturday #51 in Nashville
I just found out today that I will be one of the speakers at SQL Saturday #51 in Nashville, Tennessee...
2010-07-27
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Windows OS Power Saving Feature Directly Affects CPU Performance
While I have always known that the Windows operating system Power Plan options affect a server’s performance, I had not...
2010-07-27
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An Example of ‘Date tool’ dimension(calculation-Dimension)
Recently one of my clients would like to see their Revenue figures represented some of the time as a positive...
2010-07-26
1,733 reads
Defensive Db Programming Chapter 03
Chapter 3 of the Defensive Database Programming Book by Alex Kuznetsov teaches us about how to “survive” changes to database...
2010-07-26
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Jacksonville Code Camp – Introduction to Reporting Services 8.28.2010
The 6th Annual Jacksonville Code Camp is coming up fast. There are tons of great presenters slated to be here...
2010-07-26
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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