Quiet Wednesday
For me the Wednesday before Thanksgiving was a quiet day at work. It was one of those ‘everyone is leaving...
2011-12-06
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SQLAndy
Registration Open for SQLRally 2012 in Dallas
On my list of things to get done this week is register for SQLRally 2012 in Dallas. It’s a quick...
2011-12-05
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Now to End of Year
My friend Steve Jones posted Shutting Down for a Week and in that he talked about doing too much, trying...
2011-12-02
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PASS Update #67
It’s been a slow few weeks since my last update. This week I did a call with Karla and Wes...
2011-12-01
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PASS Update #67 (Election)
Today the slate of candidates for the 2012-2013 term was announced;
Adam Jorgensen, Denise McInerney, Geoff Hiten, Kendal Van Dyke,...
2011-12-01
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Saxophone Fire and Bad Words
There is nothing like having two children to remind you how strange, funny, and complicated language can be. Try answering...
2011-11-30
1,598 reads
TechEd Comes to Orlando in June 2012
Just saw the official announcement MS TechEd will be in Orlando June 11-14, 2012, at the Orange County Convention Center....
2011-11-30
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SQL Mag Top 10 Bloggers
I was astounded to see this blog at #4 on the list from the recent SQL Server Magazine Community Choice...
2011-11-29
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2011-11-28
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The Mute the Phone Office Prank
The client I work with as a lot of conference rooms, all with the standard Polycom conference phone that works...
2011-11-23
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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
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Follow Your Hunch
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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