Thirty Hours at Home
This is a busy travel week for me, and one of those times that stresses out everyone in the household....
2013-04-08
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Steve Jones
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The Great Laptop Search of 2013
It’s time for a new laptop. I don’t think it’s time, as I love the Macbook Air I bought a...
2013-04-05 (first published: 2013-03-28)
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2013-04-05
1,764 reads
Development, Operations, or Accounting
Cloud services need to have a much higher quality of work than their in-house equivalents if corporations are to take them seriously according to Steve Jones.
2013-04-04
114 reads
Data Darwinism
Data could be the way that more decisions are made, separating the competent from the incompetent in the future. Steve Jones isn't sure this is the best way to make decisions if we don't include a human element in the decision process.
2013-04-03
122 reads
Reminders and Rehearsal
I’ve spoken at quite a few SQL Saturday events. I won’t hit 50 this year, like Kevin Boles, but by...
2013-04-02
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Salaries in 2013
The release of an extensive salary report for Information Technology shows some good trends in it for 2013.
2013-04-02
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Google Glass Your Database
A new idea from a small startup may revolutionize the way that you search for data.
2013-04-01
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Throttle a Query in Mid-Execution
Resource Governor provides a great mechanism for throttling resources, but it doesn't always allow granular control. Read about this trace flag that allows you to dynamically alter the resource usage of a query.
2013-04-01
6,538 reads
2013-04-01
2,492 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