New Survey: Why Upgrade MS SQL Server?
Take this survey for a chance at a $20 gift certificate from Amazon. Give your reasons to upgrade and your insight on performance issues.
2005-11-01
4,585 reads
Press Release
Visual Defrag for SQL Server Discount
How often do you check your SQL Server tables for fragmentation? How often do you defragment them? This is one of those technologies that has been available for disks for a long time, but now is here for SQL Server. Norb Technologies is offering a discount to the SQLServerCentral.com community on this product.
2005-11-01
4,123 reads
Visit the SQLounge at PASS 2005!
Tried at TechEd and manned by the SQLServerCentral.com crew, this was a great idea. It's going to be at PASS and hosted by James Luetkehoelter.
2005-09-21
2,942 reads
The SQLServerCentral.com Casino Party at the PASS Summit
It is just next week that the PASS 2005 Summit kicks off and we've got some information about our casino party for those attending.
2005-09-20
3,560 reads
Come To The PASS 2005 Summit
Less than two weeks away, sessions tried and tested at the PDC, the Microsoft SQL Server development team and gambling with SQLServerCentral.com! Register today!
2005-09-15
2,954 reads
Extreme SQL Server
Clustering, partitioning, database snapshots, database mirroring, SQL Server SAN storage design and more are all in the September issue of the SQL Server Standard.
2005-09-12
5,096 reads
Who Is Using SQL Server 2005?
The release of SQL Server 2005 is a few months away and there are many people that are excited and looking forward to moving the new release into production. But what percentage of people are really looking to adopt the new platform soon? Edgewood Solutions has put together a survey to see. Enter and you could win a prize.
2005-08-24
4,911 reads
SQL Server Stumper Sale
The amazing 4S sale! Our space constraints are your gains as we've put a bunch of books on sale. Check them out and save.
2005-08-23
4,291 reads
Jacksonville - 2005 Code Camp
If you are near the Jacksonville, FL area on Saturday, August 27th, check out this code camp with our own Brian Knight. Get the chance to learn some great development from Brian and a few other experts.
2005-08-17
2,967 reads
SSC Source Code for the PASS 2005 Summit
With a month left before the 2005 PASS Summit, there is yet another great reason to attend this SQL Server conference in 2005. Read about it and be sure that you register today with our source code "SSC".
2005-08-10
2,839 reads
Blogs
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
Forums
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building a SQL Server Fleet...
Smart AI Agents and Data Security
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Smart AI Agents and Data...
RegEx Functions IV
Comments posted to this topic are about the item RegEx Functions IV
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