How to Convert FileTime to DateTime
One of my customers recently wanted to rename each of the SQL audit files will the datetime stamp of when it was created. I explained to them the filename...
2025-01-15 (first published: 2024-11-05)
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Trace Flag 3625 Follow Up
Several months ago, I discussed my customer’s intention to enable trace flag 3625. Since that time, we have observed an intriguing phenomenon when encountering a login failure. To demonstrate...
2024-12-13 (first published: 2024-12-10)
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Convert SQL Audit Files to a CSV Using Read-SqlXEvent
SQL Server Audit is an efficient way to track and log events that occur within the database engine. For on-premises or IaaS environments, those audits can only be stored...
2024-10-30 (first published: 2024-10-15)
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How to Test Trace Flag 3625
Recently, one of my customers considered enabling Trace Flag 3625 on one of their SQL Servers, but they wanted a way to quickly test its functionality beforehand. For those...
2023-12-22 (first published: 2023-12-12)
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Get Certificate Details for SQL Encryption In-Transit Using PowerShell – UPDATED
In a previous blog post, I showed you how to use PowerShell to retrieve the details of the certificate being used for encryption-in-transit, aka TLS encryption. I have received...
2023-11-22 (first published: 2023-11-14)
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Create Service Principal Names Along with a Managed Service Account
In a few previous articles, I have talked a lot about Managed Service Accounts (MSA) and Service Principal Names (SPN) and given examples of managing the separately. As a...
2022-11-11 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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How to Logon Interactively with a Group Managed Service Account
Managed Service Accounts (MSA) are intended to run as a service and not to be used by an end user to logon interactively; however, there are some cases where...
2022-03-15
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Setup Resource-Based Kerberos Constrained Delegation for Group Managed Service Accounts
In my previous post, I discussed how to setup Kerberos constrained delegation and a limitation of using that method. This post will discuss how we can used resource-based Kerberos...
2022-03-01
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Is There a Limit to msDS-AllowedToDelegateTo
For those of you that need to setup Kerberos constrained delegation for Group Managed Service Accounts, you will likely get more familiar with msDS-AllowedToDelegateTo. This attribute stores a list...
2022-02-15
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Setup Kerberos Constrained Delegation for Group Managed Service Accounts
Kerberos delegation is not a new concept in Active Directory; however, setting it up for Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) can be a bit confusing. Unlike normal domain accounts,...
2022-02-01
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T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
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RegEx Functions II
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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