New blogger: Jamie Wick
New SQL blogger
Jamie at the 45th Parallel (South) – New Zealand
This post is just a quick shout-out. My friend and co-leader...
2018-06-15
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Blog Posts
PoshSSDTBuildDeploy 2.0.268.0 - Now With Issue Management!
Hello!
Concluding this weeks work on PoshSSDTBuildDeploy is adding one of the features I spoke about yesterday, which was joining the OperationSummary and Alerts objects to produce a new table...
2018-06-15
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Prepping for Mastering Index Tuning with Brent Ozar Unlimited
I got the chance to sign up for a few courses from the Brent Ozar Unlimited team and took it....
2018-06-15 (first published: 2018-06-05)
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Volunteer for PASS!
This week, I had the opportunity to be the moderator for Joseph Barth’s (blog|twitter) 24 Hours of PASS Summit Preview session about Azure Data Factory V2. It was fun,...
2018-06-15
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Docker Challenges
I’ve been trying to get time to play with Docker more. I had it setup on my old laptop and...
2018-06-14
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PoshSSDTBuildDeploy 2.0.262.0 - Now With Warnings!
Hello!
Continuing on with my efforts to make the SSDT Deployment Report more useful, I’m pleased to say that I’ve added reporting on any alerts that appear in the Deployment...
2018-06-14
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Resend an email sent from SQL Server using TSQL
Sometimes emails from SQL Server go missing, especially when you share an inbox with colleagues. On most occasions it doesn’t...
2018-06-14 (first published: 2018-06-05)
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Speaking At SalemSQL, A Kind Of Homecoming
I am so excited to announce that I will be giving my Data Types Do Matter session for the SalemSQL...
2018-06-14
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SQL Server -Database Backup Report using PowerShell and T-SQL
In the previous articles, we discussed several ways of taking backup and testing the restore process to ensure the integrity...
2018-06-14
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The identity column, the insert and the linked server.
tl;dr; When doing an insert across a linked server you have to include the list of fields to be inserted...
2018-06-14
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Blogs
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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