N Things Worth Knowing About CTEs
If you haven’t messed with them yet, you should know that CTEs (Common Table Expressions) - new in SQL Server 2005...
2010-08-26
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Jen McCown
N Things Worth Knowing About SELECT
SELECT is this kind of Swiss Army Knife
SELECT is our bedrock, our foundation, our now-and-forever T-SQL multitasker…and it’s one of the...
2010-08-23
1,238 reads
Random Fun – Password Rules Cheatsheet
Piggybacking tangentially off of Tim Mitchell’s (blog, Twitter) SSC editorial Turn a Bad Job into a Good Experience…yesterday I got...
2010-08-17
678 reads
Tip: Change Multiple Field Formats in SSRS
One of the things about SSRS that irritates me is that in the graphical editor, you have to set the...
2010-08-13
2,003 reads
Tip: Connect to dBASE files in SSIS
This has come up several times in the course of the last TWO jobs, so I’ll put it here for...
2010-08-12
767 reads
24 Hours of PASS: Like Bacon for Chocolate
24HOP: Like Bacon for Chocolate
24 Hours of PASS is hip, it’s new…it’s serialized.
The September 15-16 24HOP is a sneak peek...
2010-08-11
687 reads
How to Attend a Tech Conference
I’m absolutely positive that I’m not the first to blog on this topic, but I haven’t seen anyone else say...
2010-08-04
949 reads
The Right Level of “Right”
…or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
I had a SQL dev’s dream come to me via...
2010-07-28
909 reads
Hi, my name is SA
Hi! I’m SA! I’ll be your mentor during your stay at Innitrode! Actually, I’m everyone’s mentor here…anytime someone needs some...
2010-07-20
581 reads
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
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', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers