Table Valued Parameters and Dapper in .NET Core
A customer I’ve been working with for a while now has a monolithic ASP.NET MVC web application which we are porting to .NET Core 3.1 (and then almost immediately...
2021-11-10
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Blog Posts
Understanding The Basics of SQL Server Security
Confusing
As I’ve worked with folks using other database engines, I’ve realized that Microsoft SQL Server has some terminology and handling that is a bit confusing.
Here’s my attempt to clarify...
2021-11-10 (first published: 2021-06-24)
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#PowershellBasics: The WHERE clause
Sometimes when you are trying to figure something out you run across something really interesting. In this case I discovered ... Continue reading
2021-11-09
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Daily Coping 9 Nov 2021
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...
2021-11-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #144–Data Governance
This month’s topic is something I wouldn’t have considered a decade ago. Especially in the US, this isn’t something that I’d actually have cared about for most of my...
2021-11-09
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Daily Coping 8 Nov 2021
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...
2021-11-08
12 reads
Log Analytics with Azure Synapse Analytics
There are a lot of services in Azure. Way more than a few. What is something you want to do with all your services and applications? You want to...
2021-11-08 (first published: 2021-11-01)
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Quick CSV Import with dbaTools – #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Recently I was searching around for some sample...
2021-11-08 (first published: 2021-11-01)
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SQL Server 2022
yes SQL Server 2022 is coming and would have many advance features. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2022 whats new in SQL Server 2022 would be know more here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/what-s-new-in-sql-server-2022/ba-p/2922227 Bob Ward would be...
2021-11-07
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Daily Coping 5 Nov 2021
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...
2021-11-05
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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