2014-01-01
2,034 reads
Steve Jones
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2013 in Review
Steve Jones looks back at 2013, starting with his predictions on Jan 1 and looking at how data and SQL Server impacted our community.
2013-12-31
115 reads
Slimming down The Voice of the DBA Podcasts
I announced in the Christmas editorial that I was discontinuing the video podcasts. Needless to say I heard a complaint...
2013-12-31
1,414 reads
2013-12-31
2,310 reads
Mining for Quitters
Google is trying to figure out who might quit the company, using their own custom application. Steve Jones thinks this is a great idea and wishes more companies would do it.
2013-12-30 (first published: 2009-06-10)
550 reads
The Ultimate Tool List
This week Steve Jones looks at a few tools that can help your productivity and links to a few more.
2013-12-30
384 reads
Memories of 2013
It's the last Friday of 2013 and Steve Jones asks you to look back at the year. What stands out in your mind that relates to SQL Server.
2013-12-27
119 reads
The Effective Cell Phone
I’ve written a bit about phones recently as I’ve experienced the switch back to iOS from Android. There are a...
2013-12-27
859 reads
2013-12-27
1,556 reads
It's not the platform
Steve Jones doesn't think that it matters which platform you choose. It's more about the people you have.
2013-12-26
157 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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stored Procedures for Server-Level Object...
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