SQL Homework – August 2018 – Set up database mail
This month’s homework is pretty simple to say, not necessarily easy to do. Set up database mail.
Why database mail?...
2018-08-01
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Blog Posts
Community Engagements Second Half of 2018 – It’s all about Biml
I have a couple of community engagements coming up in the second half of 2018 and I’d like to share...
2018-07-31
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Failed to join local availability replica to Availability Group – SQL Server error 41106 and 41158
When you configure SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group from management studio, it may fail with below error while joining secondary...
2018-07-31
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RESTORE VERIFYONLY what does WITH LOADHISTORY do?
Recently someone mentioned the LOADHISTORY option of RESTORE. It’s not horribly hard to find in BOL but it wasn’t the...
2018-07-31 (first published: 2018-07-18)
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Should You Use Index Hints?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
One of the things that the SQL Server query optimizer does is determine how to retrieve the data requested by your query.
Usually it does...
2018-07-31
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Should You Use Index Hints?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
One of the things that the SQL Server query optimizer does is determine how to retrieve the data requested by your query.
Usually it does...
2018-07-31
15 reads
SQL Operations Studio: Keyboard Shortcuts, Actual Plans, & More
Last week I posted a quiz on SQL Operations Studio, a free, multi-platform tool from Microsoft. This tool is under active development and the features are improving by the day...
2018-07-31
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SQL Server – Blocking a Truncate
The truncate option is fast and efficient but did you know that it takes a certain lock where you could...
2018-07-31
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The need for having both a DW and cubes
I have heard some people say if you have a data warehouse, there is no need for cubes (when I...
2018-07-31 (first published: 2018-07-20)
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Are you a morning or evening person?
I am not a morning person. I’ve really tried but there’s something in me that just stops me from getting...
2018-07-30
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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
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Smart AI Agents and Data Security
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RegEx Functions IV
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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