Notes on Moderating a 24 Hours of PASS Presentation
Last night (8pm Eastern) I had my first run as a 24HOP moderator and wanted to share some thoughts on...
2013-08-01
611 reads
SQLAndy
How Will Your Product Fare Over Time?
I like to look at things that have been in use for a while to see how they hold up....
2013-08-01
737 reads
Sometimes It IS The Network
Over the years when a performance problem comes up there is always some speculation that it’s a network issue and...
2013-07-31
1,168 reads
Miscellaneous Reading for July 2013
Must read blog: Sacha Chua. Lots of info on going solo, being productive, sketch noting.Related, if you’re trying to manage...
2013-07-30
1,122 reads
A Long Summer Vacation
Based on a bit of luck/happenstance I’ve been able to stretch my summer vacation to two months. I had planned...
2013-07-29
1,279 reads
Notes from SQLSaturday #231
First time event in Cocoa Beach went really well!
Speaker dinner well attended Friday night at Florida’s SeafoodQuite a few...
2013-07-29
758 reads
Encourage Someone You Respect To Run For The PASS Board of Directors
PASS is accepting candidate applications for the 2013 election through August 7th, 2013. Later this year we – the PASS membership...
2013-07-29
635 reads
Headed to Cocoa for SQLSaturday #231
I’m leaving mid-morning today to drive to Cocoa with my family for a beach weekend and SQLSaturday #231. I’ll be...
2013-07-26
704 reads
The SQLAndy Rules for Storing Credit Card Numbers
I’ll try to write more about these over the next couple months, but I wanted to write down a quick...
2013-07-26
1,128 reads
Blog Images and PNG Compression
I’m not terribly good at putting at least one image in every post. The images I do use are either...
2013-07-25
940 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...
Forums
Increment a number in a SQL Query based on a value
I have an issue where I have a Bill of Material list of items...
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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