SSC Editorial – Cheap Fun
I wrote Cheap Fun after buying a really cheap – $1 – wood airplane kit at the store for the kids. Amazing...
2010-10-21
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SQLAndy
Minutes of the September 2010 PASS Board Meeting Posted
Please take a few minutes to review the September 2010 minutes (login required). We just had our October meeting on...
2010-10-20
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SQLSaturday #49–The Poster!
Over the past few months I’ve been thinking that we don’t do enough to celebrate the people and the effort...
2010-10-20
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SQLSaturday RoundTable at the PASS Summit
We’ve made great progress with SQLSaturday this year; reaching new cities, a successful handoff to PASS, and a lot of...
2010-10-20
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SQLSaturday Session Evals & Networking
Below is a screen shot of our current speaker/session evaluation form. Simple and to the point, I think it gives...
2010-10-19
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Going to the PASS Summit? Learn to Network Too!
My friend Don Gabor is back at the Summit this year presenting a two hour seminar on Networking to Build...
2010-10-19
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Notes from SQLSaturday #49
We headed into the SQLSaturday #49 weekend with a $99 seminar on Database Design by Louis Davidson. We ended up...
2010-10-18
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SQLSaturday #49 Reminder & Notes on Event Prep
First, a reminder that our fourth annual SQLSaturday is this Saturday, October 16, 2010, at Seminole State College in Lake...
2010-10-14
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MVP Birds of a Feather Lunch at PASS Summit 2010
The almost final list just posted by Mike Walsh, 50+ MVP’s will each host a lunch table at the PASS...
2010-10-13
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Take The Survey from the SQL Server Connection Team
Saw this today, a survey posted to the SQL Protocols blog by Principal Group Program Manager Raghu Ram. I took...
2010-10-13
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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