There’s no substitute for mentoring
There’s no substitute for mentoring. We’ve heard it before, and in various ways, but I think we tend to largely...
2017-07-18
354 reads
SQL Awesomesauce
Employees, encourage work from home
The discussion around the last article I wrote on work from home (WFH) has been wonderful, but there is one...
2017-05-22
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Employers, let your people work from home
Work from home is, astoundingly, still not the norm in United States IT offices. This is ludicrous, because employees want...
2017-05-17
441 reads
I’m going to make you love backups
On April 12, I'm going to show you about two dozen ways to make your backups better, easier, faster, and...
2017-04-04
355 reads
The Public Speaking Roadmap
So you look around, and all the cool kids are speaking at SQL Saturdays and PASS Summit and the like....
2017-03-25
339 reads
Compare column names for case sensitivity
I’m reviewing the code for the upcoming Minion CheckDB, and one of the things we’re checking for is case consistency in...
2017-01-25
737 reads
Webinar: Introducing Minion CheckDB!
Minion CheckDB is available for download as of February 1, 2017! In celebration, we’re having a Minion CheckDB webinar on two...
2017-01-19
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Database snapshots for everyone!
If you're lucky enough to have SQL Server 2016, go on and upgrade to SP1....you get extra-lucky special database snapshots...
2017-01-05
620 reads
Why won’t my SP work THIS time?
Why won't my SP work? I did this exact thing. You're never too old to do something like this.
The post...
2016-12-09
562 reads
December: A two-line play.
“Wow! A family, a marathon, and two businesses! So how do you keep up with it all?” asked Twitter. “Work-life...
2016-12-05
595 reads
Blogs
No Shortcuts for the SQLCMD Batch Terminator: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
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...
Forums
Increment a number in a SQL Query based on a value
I have an issue where I have a Bill of Material list of items...
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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