Call for Speakers for the SQL Track at the Tallahassee Code Camp
The annual Code Camp is coming up on October 1st in Tallahassee and our local SQL group is trying to...
2011-08-10
796 reads
SQLAndy
See the New Logo and Graphics for SQLSaturday
Officially launched today, it’s been a project that took a while to bubble to the top, but we’ve done an...
2011-08-10
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PASS Update #61
Just a few quick updates.
First, on the SQLSaturday site we’ll be shortly rolling out an updated logo and layout for...
2011-08-09
628 reads
Money, Transparency, and Community Events
I’m going to ramble today. This is a complex topic and I think you’ll see by the end that I...
2011-08-08
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Celebrating Mistakes-Part 2
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. It’s easy to say we want to take risks, much harder to set...
2011-08-05
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Celebrating Mistakes-Part 1
Most of us learn more from mistakes than successes. We talk about taking risks, but what is the average response...
2011-08-04
673 reads
Detecting Fake Reviews
I saw this write up about Cornell coming up with a way to detect fake online reviews with about 90%...
2011-08-03
858 reads
Fitting In-The Editorial
This editorial I wrote ran on SQLServerCentral a couple weeks back and generated a lot of comments, and more than...
2011-08-02
302 reads
Notes from SQLSaturday #81
I started by journey to Birmingham by leaving work at 1130 and getting to the airport in time to have...
2011-08-01
304 reads
Big Numbers
What had me reflecting on numbers was an article in the Financial Times (Conduit of Contention if you can find...
2011-07-29
1,500 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