SQL Server Connections
I found out today that I will get to attend the SQL Server Magazine Connections conference (part of the DevConnections...
2005-12-21
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant available
Saw this at the book store this evening and picked it up.
SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
I'll spend the...
2005-12-18
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Salary Survey
SQL Server Magazine has just published its annual salary survey. I don’t really recall how they did it in past...
2005-12-17
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Crypt Packages for Perl
This is one of those "bang head here" issues. I was trying to install
Net::SSH::Perl, which basically drives SSH through Perl,...
2005-12-16
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Early Christmas
At least for me 🙂
My wife and I put an offer in on a house this past Monday and spent...
2005-12-16
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Missing some folks
In a community the size of SQL Server Central, it's natural for people
to come and go, especially with contributions to...
2005-12-15
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Anyone want to handle this?
I get a lot of email at SQLServerCentral.com on a variety of topics. Complaints about my writing, comments on the...
2005-12-14
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Simple script to show what drives all databases are on
Had a need for this the other day. We just needed a quick dump of which
drives each database was using....
2005-12-09
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Denver Launch
I wrote a little in the editorial, but I wanted to drop some other observations here.
First, apologies for not blogging...
2005-12-07
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New SQL Server 2005 Books Online available
I saw this first on Karen Watterson's blog. Microsoft has released an update to SQL Server 2005's Books Online:
Download
A quick...
2005-12-07
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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