Time for Learning
Today Steve Jones talks about the time required to increase your skills and debates about what time you need to invest each year to gain knowledge.
2013-11-14
257 reads
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Powershell in a month – Day 1
I got started on Learn Windows Powershell 3 in a Month of Lunches at lunch one day. Working at home...
2013-11-13
1,841 reads
Runtime Code
Do you test your code? What about code that is generated by applications and executed at runtime. Is that tested well? Steve Jones wonders.
2013-11-13
138 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #48–Cloud Atlas
I never saw the movie, though it’s on my list to watch sometime. I love the Wachowski’s as directors.
This month...
2013-11-12
981 reads
Cyberwar
Today Steve Jones talks about the prospect of cyberwar and the potential impacts on corporate systems. Perhaps we ought to be building better, more secure software.
2013-11-11
107 reads
How SQL Server Full Backups Work
I’m writing this in support of a few talks I give that talk about backups. This is how I see...
2013-11-11
907 reads
What Do You Want to Learn?
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know what do you want to learn more about in SQL Server? It's the end of the year, with lots of speakers winding down their events, but looking forward to next year. Let us know now what you'd like to learn about in 2014.
2013-11-08
131 reads
The Powershell Challenge
I’ve been wanting to do more with Powershell (PoSh). I’ve seen Allen White present on it for years, and I’ve...
2013-11-07
1,411 reads
Project Hekaton
Today Steve Jones talks about the Hekaton features that are coming in SQL Server 2014.
2013-11-06
319 reads
Transactionally Consistent
What does this mean? I had someone ask me in a session recently, and I think I have a good...
2013-11-06
1,103 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