SQL Vulnerability Assessment
Vulnerability assessment is probably one of the most underrated new security features in SSMS 17. This feature is not new...
2018-05-21
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SQLpassion Online Trainings in June 2018
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2018-05-21
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Tactics to Find Outdated Statistics in SQL Server
Statistics in SQL Server are used to identify the type of plan that needs to be executed for a query. SQL Server is pretty good in estimating the statistics....
2018-05-21
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Tactics to Find Outdated Statistics in SQL Server
Statistics in SQL Server are used to identify the type of plan that needs to be executed for a query....
2018-05-21
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What are the system databases?
I get to help with technical interviews every now and again, and one of the questions we always ask is...
2018-05-21
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Why PASS?
In case this is your first time hearing of it, PASS is the single largest community of Microsoft Data Platform...
2018-05-21
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C# – Read emails from exchange online mailbox (Office 365) into SQL Server
You have an Office 365 mailbox. You want to use C# to read those mails and save them to SQLServer.
The...
2018-05-20
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SQL Server Error Handling In Depth
TRY/CATCH RAISERROR Pre SQL Server 2012 Since SQL Server 2005 we’ve had TRY CATCH syntax in SQL Server handle errors....
2018-05-20
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SQL Server Error Handling In Depth
TRY/CATCH RAISERROR Pre SQL Server 2012
Since SQL Server 2005 we’ve had TRY CATCH syntax in SQL Server handle errors. If...
2018-05-20
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Thanks for joining us at SQLSat Dallas!
Engaged crowds and great questions at both my morning sessions on Saturday morning at SQLSat Dallas, an event put together by a team of expert SQLSat organizers, including SQL...
2018-05-20
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Blogs
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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Let's Talk Certifications
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Force join by longest possible choice
Title pretty much says it. I want to join to a table that has...
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
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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