A few months ago I suggested that the following settings should be the default for most SQL Server instances: Set cost threshold for parallelism to 50 Disable lightweight pooling...
2019-05-15
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Tuesday is the day when SQLDay starts. The doors are opened from 8am but the show begins with a keynote at 9am. This year the keynote talk was done...
2019-05-15
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The vision for PowerShell Core is to be able to run PowerShell anywhere. In this article, I’m going to discuss how you can use Docker Containers to enable just...
2019-05-15 (first published: 2019-05-02)
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I was recently asked in a Service Broker class that I was teaching why we would use it. Good question! Read on....
2019-05-15 (first published: 2019-05-03)
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This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #114 prompt by Matthew McGiffen. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...
2019-05-14
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This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #114 prompt by Matthew McGiffen. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...
2019-05-14
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Quite a significant change has taken place within the Azure SQL Database space, more specifically the development of Azure SQL Database Serverless. Currently in preview mode this “compute” tier changes...
2019-05-14
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Deadlocks are usually detected and resolved automatically by SQL Server by killing one of the SPIDs involved in it. You may have an alert setup to notify you and/or users...
2019-05-14 (first published: 2019-05-01)
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Problem Today, I have a request to create a new database on two-node SQL Server 2016 failover cluster instance, which is in an active/passive configuration. I connected to the...
2019-05-14
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I recently realized that I’m in the early stages of burnout. This isn’t an unfamiliar place for me, but it is new for me to recognize the early signs...
2019-05-14
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By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
By gbargsley
One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server...
By Arun Sirpal
It’s 07:43. Someone’s already left a message. “Something’s wrong with the DB server.” You...
I have an issue where I have a Bill of Material list of items...
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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