Starting Conversations - Part 5
I just finished up my third coaching call with Don Gabor (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) and...
2009-05-20
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Blog Posts
The Pros and Cons of Stored Procedures
I saw this mentioned on Twitter, and watched it while doing some light editing and scheduling. It’s from TechEd 2009...
2009-05-20
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DBA's Delight
Tto the beat of “Rapper’s Delight”
“Now what you hear is not a parse
I'm rapping to the code
'cause me, my tweeps,...
2009-05-19
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Denver SQL Server User's Group
I'm planning on attending the Thur meeting of the Denver SQL Server Users's Group this Thursday, May 21, 2009. If...
2009-05-19
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PASS Connector Editorial for May 6, 2009
I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
2009-05-19
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Sick? Stay home!
Yesterday I did something I wouldn't have thought of doing a year ago: I stayed home. When I woke up,...
2009-05-19
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Sometimes, code comments are informative and helpful
... and other times, they are stop-you-in-your-tracks funny. Here's an example of the latter:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/2009/04/21/funniest-code-comment-ever.aspx
2009-05-19
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SQLSaturday Orlando Planning Meeting on May 23, 2009
We'll be meeting at Chipotle in Altamonte Springs on May 23, 2009 at 11:30 am to discuss plans for the...
2009-05-19
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Transaction isolation level
Transaction isolation level:1. Uncommitted Read (NoLock)2. Committed Read (blocking)3. Repeatable Read (phantom)4. Snapshot (no blocking)5. Serializable (no blocking)Dirty Read:(DR)Non Repeatable Read:(NRR)Phantom:(P)Great...
2009-05-19
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Finding a New Laptop Bag
For the past couple years I've been using a Targus (I think the model 300 right now) and they've been...
2009-05-18
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Blogs
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...
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
By davebem
I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...
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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