The 10 Basic Concepts of T-SQL
For the end of the latest Basic Querying and Programming in SQL Server course, I prepared a list of the...
2017-08-29
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Video: How to Use SQL Server 2016 Live Query Statistics for Watching Live Query Execution
In this video, I show how to enable live query statistics in SQL Server 2016 in order to see execution...
2017-05-15 (first published: 2017-05-03)
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SQL Server 2016 for Performance Tuning Lovers
Last week I presented my session, SQL Server 2016 for Performance Tuning Lovers at the GroupBy conference. That was tons of...
2017-05-02
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T-SQL Programming for Developers Course
Are you a software developer?
Did you ever get to develop a software that works with a Microsoft SQL Server database?
...
2017-03-13
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Datediff: We’ve Been Doing It Wrong
One of the most common mistakes people make when writing T-SQL is using a function in the where clause, and...
2017-01-23
2,242 reads
Performance-Oriented SQL Server Development – The Scripts
Last Thursday, I delivered my seminar, Performance-Oriented SQL Server Development at the Expert Days conference in Israel.
It was a great experience,...
2016-12-30
920 reads
Performance-Oriented T-SQL Development in Belgium
On October 10, I will come back to present in one of my favorite SQL Server conferences – SQL Server Days...
2016-09-29
610 reads
If You Need to Think, You’re Doing It Wrong
A month ago, my wife and I were in Barcelona for a short vacation.
In one of the days, we entered...
2016-06-29
653 reads
My PASS Summit 2016 Session Submissions Feedback
I’m excited to say that I will be delivering a session in this year’s PASS Summit in Seattle later this...
2016-06-24
444 reads
Columnstore Index Enhancements in SQL Server 2016
One of my most favorite technologies is Columnstore. Thankfully, the guys at Microsoft seem to agree with me, because they...
2016-05-10 (first published: 2016-04-27)
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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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Stored Procedures for Server-Level Object and Column Search
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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