ETL Antipattern: Ignore the Logging
In my last ETL Antipatterns post, I wrote about the unexciting but very necessary work of documenting ETL processes. The logging of ETL operations is just as (un)captivating as...
2020-12-21
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Blog Posts
Introduction to SQL Server Query Store
Introduced with SQL 2016, Query Store was, probably without doubt, the most anticipated and talked out new feature. In this post we'll just take a brief look at it,...
2020-12-21 (first published: 2020-12-14)
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Toolbox - When Intellisense Doesn't See Your New Object
I was just working on a new SQL job, and part of creating the job was adding a few new tables to our DBA maintenance database to hold data...
2020-12-21 (first published: 2020-12-11)
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ETL Antipattern: Skipping The Documentation
Documentation is an asset that is both loathed and loved. Creating technical and business documentation is often looked upon as a tedious chore, something that really ought to be...
2020-12-20
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ETL Antipattern: Skipping The Documentation
Documentation is an asset that is both loathed and loved. Creating technical and business documentation is often looked upon as a tedious chore, something that really ought to be...
2020-12-20
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The 2021 Plan for SQLOrlando
Over the past couple years we’ve been slowly evolving from a fairly adhoc plan of doing what we did last year to a semi structured plan that was mainly...
2020-12-20
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ETL Antipattern: Load Processes that Don’t Scale
One of the most significant design considerations in ETL process development is the volume of data to be processed. Most ETL processes have time constraints that require them to...
2020-12-19
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ETL Antipattern: Load Processes that Don’t Scale
One of the most significant design considerations in ETL process development is the volume of data to be processed. Most ETL processes have time constraints that require them to...
2020-12-19
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TF-IDF in .NET for Apache Spark Using Spark ML v2
Spark ML in .NET for Apache Spark Apache Spark has had a machine learning API for quite some time and this has been partially implemented in .NET for Apache...
2020-12-19
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TF-IDF in .NET for Apache Spark Using Spark ML v2
Spark ML in .NET for Apache Spark Apache Spark has had a machine learning API for quite some time and this has been partially implemented in .NET for Apache...
2020-12-19
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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