SQL Audit 302 – Deploying the Audit Solution with Powershell
This is it, ladies and gentlemen. One last post and I promise I won’t mention the word audit for at...
2012-08-29
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Blog Posts
SQL in the City – FREE Training
Is SQL in the City coming to a town near you? The events are being held in New York, Austin,...
2012-08-29
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A Novel Workaround for an Infamous SSAS Connection Error
For months I’ve been itching to get the latest version of SQL Server, thanks to the addition of new functionality...
2012-08-28
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Lookup transformation in SSIS: Performance Improvements
There are 2 suggestions I hear about when performance tuning the Lookup transformation on a large dimension table when getting...
2012-08-28
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Minnesota SQL Saturday (#SQLSat149)
It’s close to that time of year again. It’s time for a SQL Saturday in Minnesota and this… it isn’t...
2012-08-28
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) How-To: Check Database Size with DBCC_pdw_showspaceused
There is a way to view the size of a particular PDW database using the DBCC_pdw_showspaceused command via the NEXUS...
2012-08-28
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Please, Call Me Richard
I presented a session at the SQL Saturday event in Oklahoma City last weekend. The event itself was pretty good....
2012-08-28
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Say Seminar, Not Pre-Con for SQLSaturday
I read a note posted on the OPASS LinkedIn site today about our upcoming SQLSaturday and the two pre-cons by...
2012-08-28
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Suppressing namespace attributes in nested select statements when using FOR XML workaround
I was helping out on the forums the other day with a user who had stumbled across the quirk of...
2012-08-28
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The INSTALLSHAREDWOWDIR command line value is not valid.
I was recently making some changes to my laptop setup and installing SQL Server 2008R2 and SQL Server 2012 directly...
2012-08-28
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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