SQLSaturday #85 in Orlando!
It’s that time of year again, actually a little earlier than in previous years as we’ll be holding our fifth...
2011-05-31
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SQLAndy
Survival Mode & Dodging Burn Out
One of the benefits of experience is that you can see problems coming, that doesn’t mean you have enough experience...
2011-05-26
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Looking Back at SQLRally Orlando
It’s been almost two weeks since we wrapped up our first SQLRally, and in some ways it hasn’t quite sunk...
2011-05-25
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Doing Good Isn’t Easy Some Days
A few weeks back I was on a short trip with my family and as some trips go, it had...
2011-05-23
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The 2013 PASS Summit Goes to Charlotte
Just in case you didn’t catch the news yesterday on Twitter, the PASS blog, or via the PASS Connector, we...
2011-05-19
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Updated SQLSaturday Advisory Council
About a year and a half ago we put together the first advisory council consisting of Andy Leonard, Kevin Kline,...
2011-05-17
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SQLRally Nordic
With all the talk about SQLRally Orlando you may have missed that we’ve got another SQLRally event in the pipeline...
2011-05-17
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Notes from SQLRally Orlando–Part 3
Our last day went well, even extremely well. By day 2 (or day 3 if you attended a seminar) everyone...
2011-05-16
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Notes from SQLRally Orlando–Part 2
Everything went well on Thursday. No major delays at check-in was a good start, and everything going according to plan....
2011-05-13
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Notes from SQLRally Orlando
Tuesday afternoon started with me being an unexpected behind schedule, and then another interruption or two, but by 4:30 pm...
2011-05-12
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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