PASS Summit Evals – Plan Cache Querying
This past year, I spoke at the PASS Summit for the second time. The first time was a couple years...
2012-01-04
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StrateSQL
January 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
It’s the first Monday of January and for most of us it’s probably a vacation day. No fear, you can...
2012-01-02
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Wrapping Up 2011
Goal Setting
Last year, I did a wrap up post of the year to see where I landed from where I...
2012-01-02
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Re-blog – December 23 – December 29
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2011-12-30
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SQL Saturday 99 – Confio Interview
Welcome to the seventh of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog |@ArnieRowland)...
2011-12-29
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SQL MCM Study Group
Over the last few days, you may have noticed that there’s been a bit of talk about a SQL Server...
2011-12-26
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Re-blog – December 16 – December 22
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2011-12-23
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The #Meme15 Round-Up
The first round of #meme15 has finished. In total, there were eighteen people that participated. If there were more, I...
2011-12-22
846 reads
Re-blog – December 9 – December 15
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2011-12-16
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Why Do I Blog? #meme15
As I mentioned in a post last week, a new meme has been born. This one is dedicated to discussing...
2011-12-19 (first published: 2011-12-15)
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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