SQL Server: Understanding GAM and SGAM Pages
We know that SQL server stores the data in 8 KB pages. An extent is made up of 8 physically contiguous...
2012-09-12
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Blog Posts
Why do you attend sessions?
Many of you have attended sessions by technical speakers at conferences and mini-conferences like SQL Saturday, SQL Rally, 24 Hours...
2012-09-12
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Find Skew in Distributed Tables
The SQL Server PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse) is a beast of a machine. Spreading workload across multiple nodes inside the...
2012-09-11
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Going to San Diego (#SQLSat157)
It appears that I signed up to speak at the San Diego SQL Saturday coming up this weekend. I knew...
2012-09-11
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Quick tip: Querying database metadata with DBCC DBINFO
Page 9 in file 1 (of the primary filegroup) in a SQL Server database is the header page and contains...
2012-09-11
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Talking Career and Unstructured Data
The Denver SQL Saturday is coming in less than two weeks, SQL Saturday #169 is our second event in Denver,...
2012-09-11
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T-SQL Tuesday – Help! I Need Somebody
By Jennifer Salvo
Today is T-SQL Tuesday #34 hosted by Rob Volk (B, T). This month’s topic is ‘Help! I Need...
2012-09-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #34 – Help! I Need Somebody
I couldn’t resist, so here goes….
Help, I need some data,
Help, not just any data,
Help, I was told you...
2012-09-11
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Colorado SQL - September 2012
COLORADO SPRINGS SQL
September 19, 2012 at 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Location: Hyatt Place - Garden of the Gods, 503 West Garden of the Gods...
2012-09-10
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Demystifying SQL Server Differential Database Backups
Odd Man Out
SQL Server has three backup types. Two you have heard of and used. One, while useful, isn’t very well understood.
Let’s...
2012-09-10 (first published: 2012-09-06)
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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