Azure SQL Database – Cancel Scale Up Request
You have an Azure SQL Database, it could be a single database, it could be a primary database within a failover group. Regardless of the context, what would you...
2021-06-07
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Blog Posts
Changing a Drive Letter with PowerShell
Here is a short but sweet post on how to change the drive letter of a partition. Despite using my best Google skills I couldn’t find an example that...
2021-06-07 (first published: 2021-05-21)
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Daily Coping 7 Jun 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-06-07
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Database Fundamentals #30: Create Foreign Keys With T-SQL
You can create foreign keys using TSQL roughly the same way as you created primary keys. You can either use the ALTER TABLE statement to add the foreign key,...
2021-06-07 (first published: 2021-05-24)
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Let’s Talk About Your Development Environment
Let’s talk about your development environment. Specifically, I’d like to chat with you about the virtual space where your data architecture team, software developers, and information curators do their...
2021-06-07
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Let’s Talk About Your Development Environment
Let’s talk about your development environment. Specifically, I’d like to chat with you about the virtual space where your data architecture team, software developers, and information curators do their...
2021-06-07
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Scripting using SMO
I will be delivering a lightning talk at DataMinutes on June 7th on this topic. I thought it would help to write a synopsis of what am going to...
2021-06-06
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Azure Auditing, Monitoring & Alerting
Auditing, monitoring and alerting are security & performance tools that track activities inside a database and generates log events and alerts when a predefined event(more...)
2021-06-05
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#PowershellBasics: Writing to the screen
Writing to the screen is a really basic debugging technique. That said, since I’m really new with Powershell this is ... Continue reading
2021-06-04 (first published: 2021-05-20)
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Azure SQL database backup & restore
Database backup and restore strategy is vital in preserving data for disaster recovery, compliance or fixing human error. In a business critical application, data need(more...)
2021-06-04
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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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Increment a number in a SQL Query based on a value
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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