2014 Polar Plunge #SQLPlunge
In just a couple months… on March 1… I’m going to jump into a lake in Minnesota. Now it’s cold...
2014-01-14
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StrateSQL
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #66
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-13
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The DBA That Practices Database Restores
We are often told that we need to practice our restores. And it might not be obvious, but the reason...
2014-01-10
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Reblog: January 3 to January 9
Photo credit – JStove
Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have...
2014-01-10
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I’m Speaking at the PASS BA Conference
This May PASS will be hosting their second annual Business Analytics (BA) Conference in San Jose, CA. The conference brings...
2014-01-07
578 reads
January 2014 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
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It’s the first Monday of 2014. Time for a new year and some resolutions to be a better DBA....
2014-01-06
720 reads
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #65
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-06
1,090 reads
Reblog: December 27 to January 2
Photo credit – Scott Howard
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got...
2014-01-03
363 reads
Wrapping Up 2013
Last year, I did a wrap up post of the year (also 2011 and 2010) to see where I landed from...
2014-01-01
752 reads
12 Webcasts from Pragmatic Works Training On The T’s
In the past year, I’ve done a few presentations for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s. If you aren’t familiar with Training...
2014-01-03 (first published: 2013-12-31)
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Blogs
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...
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
By davebem
I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...
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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