From PASS Summit to MVP Summit
This was a really great week!
So many sessions by great speakers, lots of community events, parties and fun. I met...
2015-10-30
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Guy Glantser
My PASS Summit 2015 Presentation
I’m going to present my session about working with parameters in PASS Summit on Thursday at 03:15pm. The title of...
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit 2015 – Here We Go
Yes, it’s this time of the year again, and I’m very excited about it. Once a year, PASS holds the...
2015-10-28
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The Trouble with Rules
I love running. I wake up at 5am three times a week, run for an hour, and by 6:30am I’m...
2015-09-16
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Please Welcome Our New Certified SQL Server DBA’s!
Today we celebrated the last session of one of our Become a SQL Server DBA classes. This course takes people...
2015-08-12
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I’m Speaking at PASS Summit 2015
It’s this time of the year again, when PASS announces the speakers in the biggest SQL Server event in the...
2015-06-29
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Extended Events to the Rescue
On May 18 I presented a session about Extended Events as part of the Global Hebrew PASS Virtual Chapter. I...
2015-05-19
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Debug Managed Code and Stored Procedures Seamlessly
Visual Studio is a great tool for developers, and it offers so many great features, such as IntelliSense, unit testing...
2015-05-18 (first published: 2015-05-06)
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I am a Superhero
Two weeks ago I attended SQLBits in London. This is probably the biggest SQL Server conference in Europe, and this...
2015-03-25
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SQLRally Nordic 2015
Last week I attended SQLRally Nordic 2015 in Copenhagen. SQLRally is a regional conference organized by PASS, kind of a...
2015-03-10
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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