Tech Review
I got asked by someone to technically review their SQL Server 2005
book, so I'm betting that there will be lots...
2005-08-05
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Blog Posts
Job Satisfaction
Interesting post by Andy Leonard.
I'll add in my two cents that you should seek happiness and
satisfaction in your job. I...
2005-07-29
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Done and Out
for a week. I'm leaving for vacation and leaving SQLServerCentral.com
in the capable hands of Andy. He'll be sending out some...
2005-07-15
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SQL PASS Chapter in South Carolina
If you are interested in helping to organize or be a part of an
official Professional Association of SQL Server chapter...
2005-07-15
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Memory Leak
A couple of days ago I noticed that the index rebuild for the search
engine was failing at night. In line...
2005-07-14
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Reboot
Apologies, a minor reboot of the db server this morning. Somewhere we're leaking memory, more details later, so I had...
2005-07-14
1,492 reads
RunAs
When I started working at JD Edwards, I was a corporate administrator
on the windows network. Since the DBAs were a...
2005-07-12
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It's always something
As Phill posts in his blog, we've had a couple interesting threads in the forums where the respect and tolerance...
2005-07-11
1,441 reads
This is lovely
I got a note that someone thought they shouldn't have to register on
the site and get a newsletter to read...
2005-07-07
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What Is Really Interesting?
When I wrote the editorial for today on A Humbling Experience,
I was sure that it would generate a bunch of...
2005-07-07
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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...
Forums
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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