MVP Status: Renewed
On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they feel have made a significant difference in their development...
2018-07-10
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Blog Posts
MVP Status: Renewed
On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they feel have made a significant difference in their development...
2018-07-10
34 reads
MVP Status: Renewed
On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they feel have made a significant difference in their development...
2018-07-10
24 reads
SQL Server Management Studio Tips & Tricks From Dr Greg Low
It’s been a bit slow in the US this week due to the American 4th of July holiday, but it’s...
2018-07-10 (first published: 2018-07-05)
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T-SQL Tuesday #104 - Code You Would Hate To Live Without
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bert Wagner and he asks us to write about code we’ve written that we would hate to live without.
First off, “hate” is...
2018-07-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #104: Just Can’t Cut That Cord
We all have our favorite scripts, tools or utilities. Those are the things that help make our jobs easier. In this article, I share with you a poor mans...
2018-07-10
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T-SQL Tuesday 104 – Capture expensive queries with query store
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday Bert Wagner invites us to share SQL scripts we’ve written that we’d hate to live...
2018-07-10
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Another MVP Award and a Few Thoughts
I got the news of my MVP award last week. I’m honored that Microsoft feels I do quite a bit...
2018-07-09
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Apache Hadoop Ozone+HDDs and Kubernetes
As Hadoop is already a great on BIG Data, now as you know hadoop has addition stuff in it with...
2018-07-09
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Azure SQL Elastic Pools – Moving Databases
If you read official Microsoft documentation about naming conventions for your SQL elastic pools, it is hard to find any...
2018-07-09 (first published: 2018-07-02)
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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