AI Thoughts on the Build Keynote
Today Steve has a few thoughts, and links, from the Build Keynote last week, which featured AI technology.
2023-05-26
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Microsoft News
Goodbye to the Microsoft Professional Program
Kathi Kellenberger addresses the retirement of the Microsoft Professional Program in the latest SImple Talk Editorial. Stop by and let her know your thoughts.
2019-09-12
Microsoft Reveals First Hardware Using Its New Compression Algorithm
The Corsica ASIC offloads compression and encryption to accelerate storage performance.
2019-05-13
Microsoft Build Day 1: Windows Subsystem For Linux Gets More Linux
Today at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, the Redmond company announced some major changes to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, as well as some improvements to Windows 10 command line...
2019-05-07
Microsoft’s Bringing New Feature to its PowerApps Platform
At Microsoft's Build conference this week, the company is making a significant number of announcements related to the company's PowerApps platform.
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2019-05-06
Microsoft’s Bringing New Privacy Controls, IE functionality, and Collections to Edge
Microsoft is going to solve its three-browser problem with a new feature in Edge and is also going to help retain more control of your browsing data too.
The post...
2019-05-06
Microsoft’s Windows Hello Takes Another Step Towards a Password-Less Future
Microsoft is bringing Windows Hello to new places that will help make it easier to log in more securely to your Microsoft account.
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2019-05-06
Microsoft Edge Browser (Chromium) Updates Announced at Build
New updates are coming to the Microsoft Edge browser as work continues to incorporate the Chromium rendering engine in a refresh of the company’s latest web browser.
2019-05-06
Microsoft Increases Minimum Storage Requirements for Windows 10 Feature Updates
Microsoft is increasing the minimum storage requirement for Windows 10 feature updates but if this impacts your environment, you have more than a year to find a solution.
The...
2019-04-26
Microsoft Edges Toward $1 Trillion Valuation on Results Beat
The results reflect Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella’s efforts to draw some customers away from cloud market leader Amazon.com Inc. and ink more significant clients. Microsoft also is benefiting...
2019-04-25
Blogs
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I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
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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