Analysis Services Lives On
The release of Analysis Services in Azure means the platform has a future.
Reading Backup History Information for a Database
There are times when you might want to read backup/restore history information to identify a backup’s start and finish date/time, the location where the backup was written, the size of the database backup, etc. Greg Larsen shows you how to do this in SQL Server.
Emotions and Decision Making
Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey that looks at emotions and how they can affect our decision making.
Learning SQL Server 2016
Here is a reference that lets you take a quick look at the new features in SQL Server 2016 and dig into the various items with a collection of links we'll maintain.
Visualize the timeline of your SQL jobs using Google graph and email
Generate an HTML page with the timeline of your SQL jobs using Google graph and sp_send_dbmail
SQL Server 2016 DBCC CHECKDB with MAXDOP
Ahmad Yaseen explains how you can control the number of processors assigned to the SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB command in order to free-up the server's resources.
Dummies Guide for a SQL Server Presentation
Preparing for SQL Server presentations is always a challenge. This article provides a few guidelines for the same
Wasting Time
Things at work that waste your time are impediments to actually getting work done. Management ought to be in the business of removing as many of these things as possible.
SQL Database: How to Configure Active Geo-Replication
Active Geo-location is powerful magic for ensuring the high availability of a Azure SQL database, and for disaster-recovery. In choosing the best options, you need to accurately understand the value that the business places on the service you're running, long it will take for a secondary replica to be in synch with the primary replica, the importance of spreading the location of replicas widely, and the maximum tolerable unscheduled downtime. Just clicking all the options could prove to be expensive.
Blogs
Where Is My SQL Agent? Running Scheduled Jobs Against Azure SQL Database
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AgentDBA vs Critical SQL Server
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Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
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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