Uninstalling Software (Sucks) and Why Computers Are Still Slow
I've just recently acquired a new laptop and my resolution is to install no software on it that I'm not...
2008-10-16
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Blog Posts
What's Your Job Title?
As I travel and visit DBAs from around the United States, I am always surprised at the job titles DBA...
2008-10-16
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Big and Small - Why Did I Write This?
I've always been very concerned about where I work. Well, maybe not always, since early in my career I took...
2008-10-15
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Looking for Free Educational Events to Attend?
Every week, there are dozen of free educational events to attend throughout the United States. The sad part is that...
2008-10-15
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Financial Trust
I’m sure that the people at Mint and Thrive have people’s best interests at heart. They built services designed to...
2008-10-14
951 reads
Flyclear Revisited
Back in May I wrote about signing up for FlyClear as a way to save time travelling and in doing so,...
2008-10-14
524 reads
Too Good at Data Analysis - Why Did I Write This?
The past few weeks have been a rough one all around the globe as economies aren't doing well. I studied...
2008-10-14
604 reads
Back to 400
I had to research a bit, write some code, and look up things to answer questions this morning. I must...
2008-10-13
700 reads
Data Farming - Why Did I Write This?
I grew up in the Cold War, with real concern that the Russians would attack us someday. I wanted to...
2008-10-13
814 reads
Double Posting
I think that it’s a great idea to keep a few blogs going, and separate out your thoughts in different...
2008-10-13
636 reads
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