I found something interesting the other day. I was attempting to optimize a very heavy string parsing routine using T-SQL and was having problems. I don’t normally use T-SQL for such heavy string parsing, but this was a special case of a legacy structure that I had to work with, so I had no choice.
2009-08-27
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Someone asked Steve Jones about finding a mentor to become a better DBA. He shares some thoughts and advice about how to do this.
2009-08-27
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Someone asked Steve Jones about finding a mentor to become a better DBA. He shares some thoughts and advice about how to do this.
2009-08-27
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Someone asked Steve Jones about finding a mentor to become a better DBA. He shares some thoughts and advice about how to do this.
2009-08-27
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In this tip I show you how you can use the built-in SQL Server database diagram tool. I go through some of them messages you may get when getting started and then look at various tasks that you would perform using this free tool.
2009-08-27
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The next SQLBits conference is being held Nov 19-21, 2009 in Newport, UK. If you want to attend or even speak, read more about this event.
2009-08-27
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A script that will move the files of a passed set of databases to a new data folder and log folder from James DiMauro.
2009-08-26
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SQL Server is so large and complex that it's like an operating system. In fact, there the core engine is often referred to as the "SQL OS" by Microsoft developers. Steve Jones would like to see SQL Server as it's own OS at some point.
2009-08-26
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SQL Server is so large and complex that it's like an operating system. In fact, there the core engine is often referred to as the "SQL OS" by Microsoft developers. Steve Jones would like to see SQL Server as it's own OS at some point.
2009-08-26
483 reads
SQL Server is so large and complex that it's like an operating system. In fact, there the core engine is often referred to as the "SQL OS" by Microsoft developers. Steve Jones would like to see SQL Server as it's own OS at some point.
2009-08-26
530 reads
By Steve Jones
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It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
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I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers