Quickly Creating a tsqlt Test for a Query
One of the things that I feel is important to building better software is testing your code. It should be easy and simple to test code and determine if...
2023-09-25 (first published: 2023-08-28)
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday Denver 2023–VCS Primer for the Database slides
My slides are here: VCS Primer Denver 2023 This was an overview of what version control is, and the basics of Git. Not too many questions, but if you...
2023-09-25
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Yet another kind of orphan users in SQL Server
Yet another kind of orphan users in SQL Server
Or YAOU for short. (This silly acronym, I just made it up so don’t try...
2023-09-25 (first published: 2023-09-02)
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A Study in SQL Server Ad hoc Query Plans
A Study in SQL Server Ad hoc Query Plans
We, (or maybe it’s just my dismissive attitude towards it), often think of ad hoc...
2023-09-23 (first published: 2023-09-22)
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Get Configuration Change History From the SQL Server Error Logs
Get Configuration Change History From the SQL Server Error Logs
There are several options if and when you need to see if any configuration change was...
2023-09-23
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A New Word:Wildred
wildred –adj. feeling the haunting solitude of extremely remote places – a clearing in the forest, a windswept field of snow, a rest area in the middle of nowhere...
2023-09-22
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Deneb – powerful visual for advanced reporting
Introduction
For one of our customers we needed to create customized reports that could not be easily implemented by using standard Power BI components. We explored different ways how to...
2023-09-22 (first published: 2023-08-28)
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Friday Flyway Tips: Copying the Migration Number
It’s a small thing, but copying the migration number can be a pain. However, we’ve made this easier in Flyway 6.5.4. I’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for work...
2023-09-22 (first published: 2023-08-18)
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Friday Flyway Tips–Flyway Parameters
Flyway is a command line tool with lots of options and parameters. Working with those is a pain, but we’ve made this easier in Flyway Desktop 6.5+. In this...
2023-09-22
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Introduction to IaC: Deploying Data infrastructure to Azure using Terraform (Part 2 - our first Azure resource)
Continuing our Part 1, we already set up our environment, we can now setup our very first example (do not worry if is too simple at this point, but...
2023-09-20 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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Blogs
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
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Stored Procedures for Server-Level Object and Column Search
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Databricks Genie Spaces for SQL Analysts: Natural Language Querying Without Leaving Your Data Platform
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The Costs of Multiple Platforms
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
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') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers