An Update on My Dell E6500
I bought my E6500 almost three years ago, giving away what was a perfectly good Latitude to trade up to...
2011-06-17
562 reads
SQLAndy
Used Book Stores and Vacation Reading
I took a vacation recently (well, a really long weekend) and as I like to do, visited a few book...
2011-06-16
674 reads
PASS Update #57-Board Benefits, Travel, and Meetings
From time to time I get asked about how PASS Board members are compensated, so I thought it would make...
2011-06-15
691 reads
Hash Tag Art
I haven’t tried this, but run across a reference to hashtagart that looks pretty interesting as a way to use...
2011-06-14
631 reads
PASS Update #56-SQLRally 2012 Site Selection
Note: This is a good, bad, and ugly post. We took some chances, got some things right, got more than...
2011-06-13
990 reads
Book Review: Make the Impossible Possible: One Man”s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
I finished reading Make the Impossible Possible: One Man”s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary...
2011-06-10
794 reads
What Color Were You On Today?
The school my daughter attends gives each student a workbook type thing at the beginning of each year, and it...
2011-06-09
603 reads
Another Idea for SQLSaturday
I spend a lot of time just looking at events, watching for new ideas. At our recent SQLRally we had...
2011-06-07
642 reads
Just Deserts
Here’s another photo from my phone, this one from SQLSaturday Tampa in the cafeteria area. An easy typo to make,...
2011-06-02
606 reads
An Unexpected Service Gotcha
Recently I was participating in a round of storage rearranging with a client (aka the storage dance) which consisted of...
2011-05-31
1,555 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