Tentative Meetings
A lot of my work right now involves going to meetings. A few of them are ones I host, a...
2011-11-10
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SQLAndy
Notes from SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa
Quick notes as it is already Thursday!
The speaker party went well. Well attended, I spent a lot of time chatting...
2011-11-10
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Book Review: Moneyball
With the movie coming out I realized somehow I’d missed reading Moneyball by Michael Lewis. It’s the story of how...
2011-11-09
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Reliving Basic Training, Sort Of
Recently I had the luxury of a long afternoon lunch at Chipotle on a Sunday afternoon, catching up on some...
2011-11-07
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2011-11-04
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SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa–Tomorrow!
With a little bit of luck I’ll be arriving in Orlando today around 9 am as I return from SQLConnections...
2011-11-04
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Meetings as Battles
I was in a meeting recently that had some quiet tension to it, at least two different sides represented and...
2011-11-02
531 reads
Fame and Social Media
Reading this post about Alton Brown from Good Eats triggered me to think on the topic. It looks like initially...
2011-11-01
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Two of a Kind
Here’s one that I haven’t run into before. A colleague scheduled a meeting with someone else in the organization to...
2011-10-31
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Play the Bob Ross Game
I was in a meeting a few weeks ago, deadlines looming and everyone feeling the stress some. We hit a...
2011-10-28
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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