How to Fail a Phone Screen
It’s funny to me how easy it is to fail a phone screen – both as the interviewer, and as the...
2013-11-29 (first published: 2013-11-18)
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SQL Awesomesauce
Compare tables to find missing rows
Let’s talk about the case where you want to compare tables to see what’s missing. We might be comparing a...
2013-11-14
920 reads
Quick note: Redgate SQL Data Compare using the command line
I’ve been working on an automated data compare process for one client. I’ve been struggling a little with odd hangups...
2013-10-22
1,147 reads
Liveblogging PASS Sumit Day 1 Keynote with Quentin Clark (#SQLPASS #Summit13)
Welcome to the live blog! Have some resources to start: Watch the keynote live here: http://www.passsummit.com #sqlserver Take a look at...
2013-10-16
518 reads
Next Week, in or out of Charlotte (#sqlpass #Summit13 #SQLHighTea #TooManyHashtags)
Welcome to Tuesday. We hope you enjoy your stay! Edit: We have been informed that today is actually Wednesday. We...
2013-10-09
536 reads
MidnightSQL Server Evaluation script, version 1.0
Server evaluations are a major part of my consulting business. I need to get up to speed very quickly on...
2013-09-30
1,264 reads
Interviews with Great SQL People – Authors, MVPs, many more
I’m trying really hard to write a blog that goes over all the great #sqlpass interviews we’ve done, but work...
2013-09-27
1,272 reads
SQL Tip: Get Log Space with DBCC SQLPERF(LOGSPACE)
Every so often I’m reminded that the “basics” aren’t really basics. None of us go to take “How to be...
2013-09-19
702 reads
Hit Fast Forward: Converting and deploying DTS packages
This one is just a quick shout-out to Pragmatic Works, and to Sean. Pragmatic Works made DTS xChange, which I...
2013-09-19
524 reads
#TribalSQL: A new book by new voices in SQL Server
Two years ago, we were talking about how cool it would be to get a bunch of unpublished authors to...
2013-09-17
525 reads
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