Query Plan Oddities: Two Identical Missing Indexes
Brent demos a single query plan that asks for 2 identical indexes on the same table.
The Case of the Shrinking CFO, err Database
Shrink SQL Server databases quickly and with virtually no contention.
Why Haven’t You Upgraded SQL Server?
Kathi Kellenberger wonders what's keeping your business from upgrading.
Cascading Update and Delete for SQL Server 2017 Temporal Tables
Ameena Lalani looks at cascading updates and deletes when using temporal tables in SQL Server.
Securing Reporting Services Reports
Learn how you can get the userid of someone connected to Reporting Services and use that information to determine if they can view the report.
VMs for Development
Many technical people use Virtual Machines to build their own lab or test environment. Today Steve Jones asks how you've built your setup.
New Azure SQL Database Standard Tier Sizes
Tim Radney of SQLskills talks about the various Standard tiers available in Azure SQL Database – what they get you, and how much they cost.
Data Security Policies
Does your organization have policies around data security? Perhaps they should, or perhaps you should ask for some to be created and education available for users.
Different Ways to Find SQL Server Orphaned Users
SQL Server orphaned users are a common thorny issue in auditing. In this post, Jeffrey Yao provides a few different ways of identifying orphaned users covering various scenarios.
Blogs
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Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
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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