The Data Platform Vision
Microsoft published a vision for their data platform and SQL Server recently. Steve Jones has a few thoughts on what this means for you. Hint: it's cloudy.
2014-02-11
141 reads
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T-SQL Tuesday #51 – Place Your Bets
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again and Jason Brimhall is hosting this month’s event. He used to live in Las Vegas,...
2014-02-11
790 reads
Did This Work? - Forum Changes at SQLServerCentral
We've made a change to the forums at SQLServerCentral. Learn how you can mark a post as an answer to your question and help others.
2014-02-10
699 reads
Performance Tuning Through Panic
We've all been there, trying to improve performance in a panic situation and not making things better.
2014-02-10
397 reads
SQL Deep Dives at Intersection in April
SQL Intersection is coming to Orlando in April, along with the rest of the Dev Intersection events the week of...
2014-02-07 (first published: 2014-02-04)
1,581 reads
The Cloud
Steve Jones likes the Cloud and gives a few reasons why. He also thinks we'll see more data in the cloud over time.
2014-02-06
203 reads
Virtual Lab – Design and Setup
This is part of a series where I set up a virtual lab for testing and misc work. The other...
2014-02-06
1,297 reads
Just use Version Control
There are free systems out there. If you have no budget, and want to get started, download one of these:
Subversion:...
2014-02-05 (first published: 2014-01-28)
2,949 reads
Zombie Data
Old data can come back to haunt you. Steve Jones talks about potential problems when data comes back to life.
2014-02-04
170 reads
Big Data Comes to Hiring
Big Data is being used to analyze more and more data to produce better decisions. However that doesn't always work as people might expect. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with using Big Data in hiring.
2014-02-03
192 reads
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...
Forums
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