Manners
In dealing with other professionals, you would like to think most people have good manners. Steve Jones looks to remind us this should apply on the Internet as well.
Error Handling in SSIS
New author Jack Corbett brings us a look at a way of finding out what caused your error in Integration Services.
Re-size TempDB files
Managing TempDB can be a bit tricky at times. Most people know how to increase the size, but what about reducing it? New author Amar Pogaku brings us two techniques for shrinking tempdb.
Congratulations to Grant Fritchey
He was awarded MVP status today, no joke, for his work in the community. According to his blog , it’s not a joke. And it shouldn’t be. Between the excellent book he wrote on execution plans, his work for PASS, and regular contributions on SQLServerCentral.
SQL Server UDF to convert integer date to datetime format
This short tip shows how you can convert an integer date, such as those stored in msdb to a real datetime value.
Portable Data Centers
Is the next data center for your SQL Servers going to be portable? Steve Jones comments on some of the changes being put forth by Microsoft and others.
Troubleshooting
New author Mike Walsh brings us an interesting analogy on troubleshooting skills that might get you to think differently about how you attack problems.
Automatic Full Parallel Processing of Hierarchical SQL Queries
Although adding multiprocessing capabilities to applications is labor-intensive and error-prone, adding multicore capability to SQL query processing can be automatic, benefiting huge numbers of applications with little developer effort.
Service Broker Poison Message Handling
Recent installments of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have focused on error handling techniques that leverage Service Broker's transactional nature. This article describes Poison Message detection characteristics and presents an example demonstrating its use.
The T-SQL Paradigm
This Friday, Steve Jones looks for opinions on what you think of the T-SQL language. Is it well structured or does it really need help?
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