String Replace in Stored Procedures with Powershell
Find a string in a stored procedure and replace with powershell
2018-11-13 (first published: 2018-11-06)
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Scripts
Disk Space Check
I was using this script to check disk space on individual servers for quite some time. And now since I started to use registered servers for MS SQL, I thought of a little modification to the script.
2018-11-09 (first published: 2018-10-24)
1,161 reads
The Pesky Windows Power Plan Oh My
The below script will build a csv file for import of the servers Power Plan Setting.
2018-11-06 (first published: 2018-10-19)
581 reads
2018-11-05 (first published: 2018-10-22)
879 reads
sp_what
Better* than sp_who2, with less re-checking data to get answers. Also, it is SnaZy. With a capital Z.
*Dont you just love totally non subjective assessments like this?
2018-11-01 (first published: 2018-10-22)
3,008 reads
2018-10-29 (first published: 2018-10-19)
1,444 reads
Mechanism To Dynamically Build Pivot Table
Script to build PIVOT queries with an arbitrary number of columns
2018-10-25 (first published: 2018-10-15)
1,006 reads
2018-10-24 (first published: 2018-10-15)
913 reads
2018-10-12 (first published: 2018-10-04)
1,170 reads
How to Identify backup tables within production databases
How to identify backup tables within production databases that can be removed.
2018-10-05 (first published: 2018-09-28)
574 reads
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Detecting Characters
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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