A Month of PowerShell – Day 2 (Variables and Operators)
Welcome to Day 2 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-02
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Wayne Sheffield
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 1 (Getting Started)
Welcome to Day 1 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. PowerShell is one of those things that I know...
2013-02-01
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Adding new data files to a log shipped database
I ran into an interesting problem recently. There is a 4TB database that is log shipped to a DR site,...
2013-01-28 (first published: 2013-01-21)
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2013-01-15
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T-SQL Tuesday #38 – Standing Firm
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Jason Brimhall. Being as this is January, lots of people are making New...
2013-01-08
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Ghost Cleanup process
I’ve been digging deeper into the Ghost Cleanup process recently, and quite naturally my quest lead to Paul Randal’s blog....
2012-12-17
14,021 reads
TSQL Tuesday #37 – Joins and Implicit Conversions
Here we are at TSQL Tuesday #37 – the start of the fourth year. Sebastian Meine (@sqlity / blog) is hosting this...
2012-12-11
2,018 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #36 – Community
Chris Yates (@YatesSQL / blog) is hosting the T-SQL Tuesday blogging party this month, and he wants to know “What does...
2012-11-13
736 reads
Does a Clustered Index really physically store the rows in key order?
The Myth
One misconception that I see a lot deals with how data is stored in a clustered index. Specifically – is...
2012-10-21
8,181 reads
Dealing with orphaned users
The Scenario:
You just restored a production database on a development server. You’ve told the developers that it’s restored, and you...
2012-10-03
2,729 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
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...
Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Split Large Queries in Athena...
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