PASS Update #43
Last Friday saw the end of the 2010 PASS election and it was very nice to find out I had...
2010-09-20
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SQLAndy
SQLSaturday Event Leaders – Reserve Your Date for H1 2011
We’ll try to push this out through multiple channels, we’re trying to forecast dates to give those thinking about events...
2010-09-20
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CakeWrecks
Recently I had a student point me to CakeWrecks, a blog about good cakes gone bad.The post from today has...
2010-09-17
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Do You Have Influence? Part 2
I started writing on influence last week and promised some comments on how to build influence and credibility. There are...
2010-09-17
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Do You Have Influence? Part 1
Most people blog because it’s fun, rewarding, good way to improve writing skills, be cool, and it looks good on...
2010-09-16
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Notes from the Sep 13, 2010 oPASS Meeting
Jack led the meeting tonight, spending a good amount of time on SQLSaturday, and Kendal Van Dyke did his marketing...
2010-09-16
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Book Review: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
I read Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell on a recommendation by Andy Leonard. Easy recommendation...
2010-09-15
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PASS Election Ends Tomorrow (Sep 15, 2010)
If you haven’t voted I hope you will. Ballots were sent out via email to those members eligible to vote....
2010-09-14
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Failing Fast
I’ll have a longer post next week about my own risk strategy, but I wanted to write this first, both...
2010-09-14
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The SQLSaturday Squirrel
A bit of mid week humor. Recently I met up with Jack Corbett to review our room options for SQLSaturday...
2010-09-14
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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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Increment a number in a SQL Query based on a value
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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