Snagit…
If you read my last post, you may have noticed that my images now include boxes, balloon text and highlighting. ...
2010-03-21
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Seth Phelabaum
Random Thoughts on Aliasing
Here are many different thoughts/facts/preferences on aliasing. Most of this applies to column aliasing. Regardless of whether or not you...
2010-03-20
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Tally Table CTE
Now that I have several posts on what you can do with a Tally table, I figured I'd share my...
2010-03-19
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SCSUG March Meeting Recap
The Monsoon
My trip to the meeting, short as it was, involved some of the worst driving conditions I've ever personally...
2010-03-12
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SCSUG (Space Coast SQL Users Group) Meeting Tonight Featuring PFE David Pless
In case you missed David Pless in Orlando on Tuesday, you have another chance to see his presentation tonight (Thursday...
2010-03-11
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Tally Table - Delimited list to Table
Dealing with delimited lists (Usually separated by a comma) in SQL is a problem easily handled by a simple function...
2010-02-27
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Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions
In my last post, I noted that one of the biggest differences between ISNULL and COALESCE was the fact that...
2010-02-25
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Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions
In my last post, I noted that one of the biggest differences between ISNULL and COALESCE was the fact that...
2010-02-21
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ISNULL() VS. COALESCE()
There are a lot of arguments about which of these to use. In my opinion, they both have their place. ...
2010-02-11
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IN and NOT IN
One of the most common mistakes made in T-SQL is thinking that these behave identically. I've personally opened up a...
2010-02-04
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Blogs
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
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...
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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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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