Spring into the Latest Features at the Luxemborg User Group
The next meeting of the Luxemborg SQL Server User Group has some great sessions planned.
SQL Community
Back in my early days as a database administrator, almost 16 years ago, I happened upon a web site called SQL Server Central. Because I found so many useful articles and forum posts, the site was open in my browser at work every single day. It was a great source of information, and eventually, I […]
How to Programmatically Identify When Your SQL Server Was Last Started
Greg Larsen shows you a quick trick to programmatically script a way to identify when SQL Server was last started.
Keep It All
We could use more intelligence in our backup systems, since we don't need to keep all those files.
Making Deployments Simpler with Re-runnable Scripts
Make sure your SQL Server database release scripts to make life easier.
How to Show the Execution Plan of a Running Query
By looking at a query execution plan, you can determine which steps are used to resolve the query. But what if you just want to find out what the query plans are for only the queries that are currently running?
Do you check your backups?
Backups. Are you confident you can restore? Do you have a process that ensures you can recover your systems? Learn how one system works in the cloud.
SQL Server Graph Databases – Part 2: Querying Data in a Graph Database
Along with Graph Databases, Microsoft has introduced the new MATCH function for querying them. Robert Sheldon explains how to use the new function.
Good Security Needs Layers
A good security system needs layers since our applications and platforms don't exist in a vacuum.
Blogs
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...
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
By davebem
I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...
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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