Why Am I Amazed By a 2000 Page Word Doc?
It’s not uncommon to have information shared in a Word doc, but I was surprised recently to open one up...
2011-12-16
727 reads
SQLAndy
Will You Buy Refurbished? Part 2
Yesterday I shared the small adventure of buying a refurbished laptop. While I was at Compusa looking at laptops I...
2011-12-15
863 reads
Will You Buy Refurbished? Part 1
A couple months back the laptop my wife uses was fading away, the internal power connector was broken/barely working and...
2011-12-14
640 reads
Notes from the MagicPASS Holiday Party
I haven’t been to a MagicPASS meeting in a while, so it was nice to reconnect with the group at...
2011-12-14
733 reads
The Shredder Challenge
The Shredder Challenge was a contest sponsored by DARPA to find ways of putting shredded documents back together. Take a...
2011-12-13
848 reads
Presenting at IT Pro Camp in January 2012
My first outing of the new year will be at the IT Pro Camp here in Orlando, working on some...
2011-12-12
646 reads
More Culture-The Failure Wall
Ran across this during my daily reading, a post by Jeff Stibel on Why I Hire People That Fail. The...
2011-12-12
780 reads
My Recipe for Chocolate Pie
One of our small holiday traditions is that we bake at least one home made dessert. Hard to beat the...
2011-12-09
655 reads
Book Review: Sixkill
Sixkill is the 39th Spencer novel, and the last that was written by Robert Parker before his death. The plot...
2011-12-08
644 reads
First Thoughts on the Kindle Fire
My perception of the tablet market has been that the iPad is king, but at a kingly price. If I...
2011-12-07
799 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Roundup
A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited...
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...
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