Code I’d Hate To Live Without: T-SQL Tuesday #104
It’s TSQL Tuesday again! This time our respected host is Bert Wagner (b/t). Quick aside, if you haven’t seen his...
2018-07-19 (first published: 2018-07-10)
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Blog Posts
SQL Solver
A few months back I ran across this article for checking semantic equivalencies of queries. That’s interesting, from the perspective...
2018-07-19
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Configure SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance on Azure Virtual Machines with MSDTC
Configure SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance If you are running a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance on premises and looking...
2018-07-18 (first published: 2018-07-06)
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Creating SQL images in Azure with ACR Build – Part One
Whenever I’ve pushed images up to an Azure Container Registry I’ve been building them locally (using Docker for Windows) and...
2018-07-18
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Data Masker for SQL Server and Temporal Tables
A customer had a question recently about using Data Masker for SQL Server and temporal (or system versioned) tables. I...
2018-07-18
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Is this a SQL Provision Cloned Database?
As I work with SQL Provision, I keep finding new questions and concerns from clients and customers. Recently I had...
2018-07-18
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Know How Table Variables Different From Temporary Tables in SQL Server
Know What Table Variables are ?
SQL Server support features that allow users to work with temporary data that gets stored...
2018-07-18
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Know How Table Variables Different From Temporary Tables in SQL Server
Know What Table Variables are ?
SQL Server support features that allow users to work with temporary data that gets stored in temporary tables. Microsoft introduced table variables for the...
2018-07-18
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Performance Tuning Exercise: Lazy Table Spool
Folks, it’s time for a bit of a performance tuning exercise. Below is a real world situation where a stored...
2018-07-18
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TDD for SQL Server using tSQLt course certificates now available
I have been asked a few times now for course completion certificates so I have decided to give out certificates...
2018-07-18
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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