Many businesses are hesitant to adopt cloud technology due to security, cost, and complexity concerns. This can make it challenging for organizations to sell the benefits, leading to missed opportunities. Learn about different techniques to help sell cloud technology in your organization.
This article explains different methods to move a SQL database into a new directory of Ubuntu Linux. This article covers the following topics. How to install SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu Linux. How to add a new drive in Linux. Attach the StackOverflow database using the database. Install SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu I have […]
I often perform code reviews and thought it would be fun to frame this exercise: a completely fictitious stored procedure hits my desk, I’ll reject it of course, and enumerate the reasons why.
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The tip, Views in SQL Server, explored the purpose of views, creating views examples, and benefits of views. A view is a virtual table that references the actual database tables stored in the database. What if someone changes the underlying table structure, such as renaming the column, adding a new column, or dropping the table? What is the impact of changing schema on views? How can we stop any schema changes if the view references the schema?
Redgate’s new DevOps test data management tool, Redgate Clone, provisions production-like data in seconds for SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle databases.
I've found myself to be very distracted this week. Concentration on the task at hand has proven to be a challenge. I'm pretty sure the cause is that I just came off of three weeks of travel, which can be exhausting. Concentration, like so many things in life, requires energy. No energy, no concentration. So, […]
This article will cover exporting data from a PostgreSQL table to a CSV file, both from the command line and pgAdmin. We will also look at importing data from a CSV file.
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Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited...
By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
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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