Start Building Your Next Network
Take a look at your network right now and while it probably has some diversity, I bet it’s tied pretty...
2012-03-30 (first published: 2012-03-25)
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SQLAndy
Gardens and Scarecrows
A few weeks ago I started clearing space for a small garden. Tedious work due to the area of the...
2012-03-16
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I’m Not a Bozo!
Something fun for Friday, this was a gift from the client I work with to lighten things up and do...
2012-03-16
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Done or Not Done
One of the things I hear a lot relating to work big and small is that it is “almost done”,...
2012-03-12
578 reads
Jedi Mind Tricks
Here’s a story from a recent meeting. We were discussing some problems and the team was talking through some options...
2012-03-12
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Notes from the February 2012 MagicPASS Meeting
I was back at MagicPASS last week to do a presentation, my first time with the group at the new...
2012-03-06
563 reads
The Armor of Transparency
Yesterday I blogged about hosting a daily status meetings and some of the tricks I use to make it work....
2012-02-27
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The Daily Status Meeting
For the past six months or so I’ve hosted a daily status meeting for a large project. It started out...
2012-03-02 (first published: 2012-02-26)
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First Impressions
I was chatting with a friend recently who had been in turn chatting with a colleague about first impressions. The...
2012-02-21
970 reads
Selected to Speak at SQLRally 2012
I was excited to receive the email on Friday that I’d been selected to present at SQLRally #2 in Dallas...
2012-02-20
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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