For security reasons many sites disable the extended stored procedure xp_cmdshell, which is used to run DOS commands or executables. When you really have to run a DOS command or an executable from a stored procedure how can you get around this limitation without a breakdown in security.
One common problem in querying is to reference the previous row in a data set as part of a calculation. David McKinney brings us an interesting solution using SQL Server 2005.
This Friday Steve Jones talks about your career, and training, and what you are doing about it.
It's time to integrate social data, enterprise analytics and enterprise data for better social-media strategy.
Are there some things that are beyond automation in your company? Steve Jones comments on the difficulty of changing things with automation in some cases.
Describes how to convert database mirroring to log shipping in SQL 2005/2008.
This tool is excellent when investigating what is going on in your StreamInsight Streams. I was looking through the menu items recently and went to Query => Event Fields I found that there were a couple of columns not added by default to the event viewer (Reminds me of the fact that the Variables viewer in SSIS hides columns also) Latency NewEndTime EnqueueTime Here they all are together. This gives us even more information about what is going on
Can you set a pagefile on a Windows machine to more than 4GB? Stanley Chan shows us how after an issue with a crashed Windows machine.
Terry Childs gets sentenced for refusing to turn over passwords to his boss. Steve Jones reminds us that we work for someone and that we have to remember that when taking a stand.
I understand that I can use Central Management Servers to run a T/SQL query against multiple instances at once - can I do this without CMS though?
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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