ODBC DSN on 32/64 Bit Systems
Funny how you can work with data a long time and still run into something new. I’ve been working on...
2011-07-06
750 reads
SQLAndy
Deleting Accounts from Websites
I ran across this article about How to Delete an Account from Any Website on the PC Magazine web site....
2011-07-05
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Book Review: Hour of the Horde
Hour of the Horde by Gordon R. Dickson ($1-5 @ Amazon) is an interesting story. The basic plot is that one...
2011-07-01
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2011-06-30
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Google Correlate
My friend Rob Hatton pointed me to Google Correlate, a new service that lets you explore data trends in a...
2011-06-30
1,793 reads
Energy Efficient Offices
I work with a client that recently moved into a newly renovated space in a smaller office building. The renovation...
2011-06-29
887 reads
Attention Speakers–Sign Up for SQLSaturday #85 in Orlando!
Our call for speakers for #85 will be open about another 10 days, and then Bradley Ball can jump into...
2011-06-28
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PASS Update #58 (Elections)
Last year we had some problems with our annual election, enough problems that clearly we needed to do a deeper...
2011-06-27
672 reads
Growing Leaders
Here’s a two part story(Part 1, Part 2 from Information Week by Larry Tieman you should read. There’s a great...
2011-06-24
895 reads
Indexes Aren’t Always the Answer
There’s a tendency to think all problems can be solved with an index or two (or partitions, or other performance...
2011-06-20
983 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...
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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