PASS Summit 2013 – Day 3: Query Tuning, Memory Internals, SSIS and PowerShell
This is actually the first formal day of the PASS Summit, but it’s my third day here. I have already...
2013-10-17
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Guy Glantser
PASS Summit 2013 – Day 2: The PASS Spirit
This is my second day into the PASS Summit 2013, and the excitement is still rising. My first day was...
2013-10-16
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PASS Summit 2013 – My First Day and Paul White
This is my first time to attend the PASS Summit. I was very excited about it, and I planned to...
2013-10-15
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How Much Unallocated Space do I Have in My Database Files
In a previous post, I wrote about when and how to shrink your database files. The bottom line was that...
2013-08-13
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My Summary of 24 Hours of PASS
Once a year, just before the annual PASS Summit, there is a promotional event called 24 Hours of PASS. The...
2013-08-05
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When and How to Shrink Your Database
Most DBAs know that shrinking a database is a bad thing. But in many cases, there is no DBA around,...
2013-08-01
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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