Daily Copying 23 Apr 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-04-23
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Blog Posts
Live Stairways Day 1 Homework
I recorded my first class for the Live Stairways – Learning DAX and Power BI. My apologies for anyone that wanted to join. We had an error in the...
2020-04-23
64 reads
Move All Your SQL Database and Log Files in Bulk
As always, the script from this post can also be found on our GitHub repo, HERE You’ve got a SQL Server with a few hundred databases on it (to...
2020-04-23 (first published: 2020-04-15)
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New Pluralsight Course – Designing a Site Recovery Strategy on Microsoft Azure
My new course “Designing a Site Recovery Strategy on Microsoft Azure” in now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in go here! This course...
2020-04-23
7 reads
New Pluralsight Course – Designing a Site Recovery Strategy on Microsoft Azure
My new course “Designing a Site Recovery Strategy on Microsoft Azure” in now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in go here! This course...
2020-04-23
87 reads
New Pluralsight Course – Designing a Site Recovery Strategy on Microsoft Azure
My new course “Designing a Site Recovery Strategy on Microsoft Azure” in now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in go here! ...
2020-04-23
5 reads
Redgate Community Circle
I am very excited to announce that I will be taking my paid precon content “Tools for SQL Server Query Performance Tuning” and presenting it for free. This is...
2020-04-23 (first published: 2020-04-16)
175 reads
SQL Prompt Fixes Poor Order By Coding
SQL Prompt is a fantastic coding aid, but it does more than format your code and provide intellisense. Over time, the team has enhanced SQL Prompt to also guide...
2020-04-23 (first published: 2020-04-15)
478 reads
A Bug in ‘Move All Your SQL Database and Log Files in Bulk’
It looks like we had a bug the in the SQL script in Move All Your SQL Database and Log Files in Bulk. No worries though, it’s all been fixed...
2020-04-22
19 reads
Daily Coping 22 Apr 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-04-22
18 reads
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
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