Monday Monitor Tips: Beyond SQL Server
Redgate Monitor works with more than SQL Server. Some big changes were announced recently, and I’ll cover the highlights here. This post looks at Redgate Monitor and the additional...
2025-05-19
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Engineering in Austin
I was lucky enough to attend SQL Saturday Austin 2025 a little over a week ago in conjunction with some work at the Redgate office. The opening keynote at...
2025-05-19 (first published: 2025-05-12)
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Using Cron in Postgres Flex
pg_cron is a simple cron-based job scheduler for PostgreSQL that runs inside the database as an extension. It allows you to schedule PostgreSQL commands directly from your database, similar...
2025-05-19 (first published: 2025-04-24)
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A Conversation That Refused to End: What We Learned from Our First Event in Zurich
On May 8, 2025, we hosted our first official event in Switzerland at Prime Tower, Zurich. The gathering marked an important step in our journey to support organizations as...
2025-05-16 (first published: 2025-05-15)
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Execute Fabric Data Pipeline from Azure Data Factory
In the blog post Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory I explained how you can call a Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure Data Factory (or...
2025-05-16 (first published: 2025-04-28)
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The Book of Redgate: Customer Quotes
Many organizations list customer testimonials and quotes on their websites or literature. It makes sense to show off those places where you’ve done well in hopes of influencing others...
2025-05-16 (first published: 2025-04-25)
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The Book of Redgate: Do Your Best Work
One of our mission statements in the Book of Redgate says: attempt to do the best work of your life. I’d like to think that at most points in...
2025-05-16
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A DevOps Workshop Tomorrow in Atlanta
Tomorrow is the Redgate DevOps Day in Atlanta. You can still sign up, so do that if you can make it. Here’s the rough outline Vision Session – w/...
2025-05-14
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How To Restore Change Data Capture – CDC Tables When Restoring a SQL Server Database
I have recently had the privilege of working with multiple clients who have been taking advantage of Change Data Capture “CDC”. Change Data Capture is a feature that utilizes...
2025-05-14 (first published: 2025-04-28)
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Testing for End of Month in PowerShell
This is one of those blog posts you write so that 2 years later, you can look it up to remind yourself how to do something.
I found myself needing...
2025-05-14 (first published: 2025-04-28)
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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