Improve DBA Operation Productivity – Part One
I define DBA operation productivity as the total positive values brought to the work environment by a DBA in a...
2012-07-24
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Blog Posts
PowerPivot diagram view missing
Some of you might be wondering why Diagram View is missing in some PowerPivot windows. This is related to Microsoft...
2012-07-24
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Should Apps Use a Dedicated Port?
Most applications connect on whatever the default port is, typically 1433 for SQL, though it’s common to change that to...
2012-07-24 (first published: 2012-07-18)
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SQL 2012 evaluate installation requirements
As part of my preparations for 70-462 Administering SQL Server 2012 today I have created a blog post covering "evaluate...
2012-07-24
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SQL FOREIGN KEY CONSTRAINT Syntax
You can enforce referential integrity (ensure you don't get orphans) by adding Foreign Key Constraint and in this tutorial you...
2012-07-24
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SQL Saturday 122: T-SQL 2012 presentation
This last weekend, I had the pleasure of being invited down to Louisville, KY to speak at SQL Saturday #122....
2012-07-24
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SQL Unique Constraint
In this blog psot we show how to restrict users from entering duplicated data by using SQL UNIQUE Constraint. In...
2012-07-24
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Help others and enter to win a prize
My home state of Colorado has been devastated by wildfires. My vacation this summer was semi-cancelled with a fire closing...
2012-07-23
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O, There’s the Data: Using OData in SSIS
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open specification created Microsoft to enable exposing data in a standard way from...
2012-07-23
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PowerPivot default measure aggregation
One of the PowerPivot advantages is flexibility of changing measure aggregation for instance changing average to minimum. PowerPivot applies default...
2012-07-23
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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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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