Manners
In dealing with other professionals, you would like to think most people have good manners. Steve Jones looks to remind us this should apply on the Internet as well.
2009-04-05
59 reads
Articles
Error Handling in SSIS
New author Jack Corbett brings us a look at a way of finding out what caused your error in Integration Services.
2009-04-03 (first published: 2008-04-21)
44,721 reads
Re-size TempDB files
Managing TempDB can be a bit tricky at times. Most people know how to increase the size, but what about reducing it? New author Amar Pogaku brings us two techniques for shrinking tempdb.
2009-04-03
29,551 reads
Congratulations to Grant Fritchey
He was awarded MVP status today, no joke, for his work in the community. According to his blog , it’s not a joke. And it shouldn’t be. Between the excellent book he wrote on execution plans, his work for PASS, and regular contributions on SQLServerCentral.
2009-04-03
1,377 reads
SQL Server UDF to convert integer date to datetime format
This short tip shows how you can convert an integer date, such as those stored in msdb to a real datetime value.
2009-04-03
3,612 reads
Troubleshooting
New author Mike Walsh brings us an interesting analogy on troubleshooting skills that might get you to think differently about how you attack problems.
2009-04-02
6,310 reads
Automatic Full Parallel Processing of Hierarchical SQL Queries
Although adding multiprocessing capabilities to applications is labor-intensive and error-prone, adding multicore capability to SQL query processing can be automatic, benefiting huge numbers of applications with little developer effort.
2009-04-02
2,311 reads
Service Broker Poison Message Handling
Recent installments of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have focused on error handling techniques that leverage Service Broker's transactional nature. This article describes Poison Message detection characteristics and presents an example demonstrating its use.
2009-04-02
1,585 reads
The T-SQL Paradigm
This Friday, Steve Jones looks for opinions on what you think of the T-SQL language. Is it well structured or does it really need help?
2009-04-02
566 reads
The T-SQL Paradigm
This Friday, Steve Jones looks for opinions on what you think of the T-SQL language. Is it well structured or does it really need help?
2009-04-02
560 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
T-SQL Tuesday
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
Exploring DiskANN: Part 2: PQ, SSDs, caching and beam search
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Forums
Databricks Genie Spaces for SQL Analysts: Natural Language Querying Without Leaving Your Data Platform
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The Costs of Multiple Platforms
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RegEx Functions II
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
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