Notes from SQLSaturday #107 in Houston
I’ve deliberately waited a bit to write this after the event, just to see what stood out after a week...
2012-05-01
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SQLAndy
2012 (2011) Data Breach Report
I had a chance over the weekend to finish reading the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report. It’s a compilation...
2012-04-25
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List of Sharepoint Blogs
I ran across this list of Sharepoint blogs by Rene Modery while doing some Sharepoint reading. He has an OPML...
2012-04-24
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Call for Mentors for The Mentoring Experiment
We’re about to start our second experiment over at The Mentoring Experiment and we need mentors. Last time we picked...
2012-05-04 (first published: 2012-04-24)
1,848 reads
Im in Houston Today (and this weekend too)
I’ll be spending the day with the 2011 Idera ACE’s (aka the old aces) and the 2012 Idera ACES (the...
2012-04-20
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Book Review: American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company ($18 at Amazon) was a good read, with...
2012-04-17
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Three Mistakes Managers Make
I suppose there is an almost limitless number of mistakes that managers can do and do make, it’s the nature...
2012-04-16
1,018 reads
SQLSaturday #151 Announced–Orlando!
Just got the email, Orlando will be having its sixth annual SQLSaturday this year on September 29th, 2012, at Seminole...
2012-04-16
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SQLRally at Starbucks Networking Event
Craig Purnell and I are hosting an informal networking event at SQLRally this year on Friday May 11th from 7-8:30...
2012-05-04 (first published: 2012-04-12)
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A Strange Day at McDonalds
A few weeks ago I was running errands on a Saturday, with an almost final stop at Home Depot to...
2012-04-12
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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