Congratulations to Glenn Berry - SQL Server MVP
I just leaned today that Glenn Berry has had his MVP award renewedfor another year. If you have not read...
2008-07-27
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Blog Posts
Tool Review: Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel
It's downright common these days to download programs as ISO images, but XP doesn't have a native viewer for them....
2008-07-27
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Database Weekly
At least this project is moving forward. We deployed a new design to the site this week, and turned it...
2008-07-26
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A Bad Karma Project
We've had a project underway to upgrade these blogs, moving to a newer version of Community Server, better skinned, etc....
2008-07-25
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Blogging Thoughts - Part 2
Earlier I wrote Blogging Thoughts - Part 1 where I discussed the various approaches I've seen in blogs (blogging when you...
2008-07-24
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Midlands PASS August Meeting
Speaker: Darren Herbold
Midlands PASS Chapter - August 7, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday, August 7,...
2008-07-24
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Tool Review: TaskSwitchXP
For longer than I care to count I've used the Alt-Tab Powertoy from MS to get a nicer view of...
2008-07-23
1,293 reads
Blogging Thoughts - Part 1
One of the things I've been looking at is different blogging styles and trying to figure out which to recommend...
2008-07-22
1,328 reads
Building Better VMs
The other day I fired up my old desktop, intending to use it as background in the podcasts. It gave...
2008-07-22
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Disabling Indexes Published on SQLServerCentral.com
It's been a while since I had anything up on SSC, a combination of Steve being in good shape on...
2008-07-22
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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