Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Tip: Usage of SYSDATETIME() vs GETDATE()
Usage of GETDATE() dates back to the earliest versions of SQL server and has become the primary blade in our...
2012-07-21
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Blog Posts
How to use LinkedIn to enhance your career
LinkedIn is a great resource to improve your career. It has definitely worked for me as the last 5-6 jobs I have...
2012-07-20 (first published: 2012-07-16)
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Parallel Execution in SSIS with MaxConcurrentExecutables
MaxConcurrentExecutables, a package level property in SSIS determines the number of control flow items that can be executed in parallel....
2012-07-20
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Presentations That Exceed The Allotted Time
Back in February I did a presentation for MagicPASS that ran long, maybe 30 minutes over the time allotted. It...
2012-07-20
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SQL CREATE TABLE Statement
We have created a simple tutorial for SQL Create Table that may help some of you to prepare for Microsoft...
2012-07-20
678 reads
technorati blog directory 8HBVGY7K4K5E
We found another Blog directory that is willing to accept our RSS feed. And we have been asked to put...
2012-07-20
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The Mentoring Experiment is taking applications
If you would like a mentor, we’ are taking applications at The Mentoring Experiment. We ran this last year and...
2012-07-20
1,157 reads
Contained Databases – Server Setting Matters
In doing some additional testing on contained databases, I decided to create a new database on a new test VM.
CREATE...
2012-07-19
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Excel 2013 download and install
Office 2013 Preview is not avialable. I'm particularly interested in Excel 2013 and new self-server BI features so I decided...
2012-07-19
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Excel 2013 enable PowerPivot addin
In this blog post we cover instructions on how to enable PowerPivot in Excel 2013 (you can follow them in...
2012-07-19
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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