When DBCC INPUTBUFFER disappoints
Today we have an alert from one of the client server about blocking, I have immediately start looking at it...
2012-01-30
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Detect Worst Performing SQL Queries
This series of Videos will walk through how to detect worst performing sql queries which is slowing down Microsoft SQL...
2012-01-29
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Find failed SQL jobs with powershell
This weekend I went to SQL Saturday in Auckland. It was nice to interact with other DBAs again. Kent Chenery...
2012-01-29
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Find Login in Active Directory
Find Login in AD
Many times we require to know if particular login is a part of ad user group. Or...
2012-01-29
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Rebuild System Databases
Yesterday night one of FB Friend have ping me, he has issue with his local SQL Server instance. Our conversation...
2012-01-29
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Creating merge replication conflict alerts
One of the challenges in working with Merge Replication is handling conflicts since writes can occur at any node in...
2012-01-28
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Blogs
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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RegEx Functions IV
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RegEx Functions IV
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', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers