Index Analysis Post Christmas Update
Last week I mentioned that I had put up a few new versions of my index analysis script. Turns out...
2012-12-28
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StrateSQL
It’s Another 24 Hours of PASS
With the upcoming PASS Business Analytics Conference, it only makes sense for there to be a 24 Hours of PASS...
2012-12-27
1,142 reads
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #12
Happy holidays, seems this post missed coming out this morning as typically scheduled. Thus, a late afternoon post on this...
2012-12-25
723 reads
It’s A Data Type Conversion Chart
This may not be the coolest thing in the world, but it is quite useful. From the annals of Books...
2012-12-21
662 reads
Reblog: December 14 to December 20
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-12-21
901 reads
Index Analysis: The Re-Return
A couple years back, I wrote a few blog posts about an indexing script that I use with clients from...
2012-12-25 (first published: 2012-12-18)
3,270 reads
Speaking at PASSMN Tomorrow & Happy Hour
Come on out to the Minnesota PASS SQL Server User Group (PASSMN) tomorrow and hear me speak about extended events....
2012-12-17
772 reads
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #11
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out through out...
2012-12-17
631 reads
Reblog: December 7 to December 13
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-12-14
639 reads
December Checklist and Updates
It’s a bit past the first Monday in December, but better a week late than no checklist and update post...
2012-12-10
903 reads
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