This might not be the fastes script, in the world but it takes care of the McDonalds, O'Brian's, MacPherson's and the Jens-Michael's of the world.

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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.COM

If 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)