The Windows Search Engine Is Currently Disabled
If you have ever gotten this error message you may have been left scratching your head wondering why…kinda like me.
The...
2012-01-16
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Blog Posts
Extending the Publisher to the Cloud
SQL Azure Data Sync
This weekend I decided to setup a SQL Azure sync group to synchronize a SQL Azure database...
2012-01-15
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Twitter, John, Building a Blog and #MEME15
I saw an interesting post this morning care of the micro-blogging/social networking site twitter that really got me thinking about...
2012-01-15
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Including Missing Values in Data Ranges Without a Lookup Table
Including Missing Values in Data Ranges Without a Lookup Table
Including Missing Data
One of the ways that I learn new things...
2012-01-14
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PASS: Time to Change the By-Laws
Yesterday Bill Graziano announced the appointment of two Directors (Kendal Van Dyke and James Rowland-Jones) to fill vacancies on the...
2012-01-14
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Using TDD To Create A Working Application In C# : Part 2
Last FM Wrapper
You know that web project we created? You can completely forget about that for now as this is...
2012-01-14
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Answer the Question Asked
“Bill, are you running SQL R2 on your desktop?”
This seems like a simple enough question, yet I usually cannot get...
2012-01-13
850 reads
Ethics and Power
Power corrupts.
A famous quote, and it’s one of the the most true quotes I’ve seen in my life. When someone...
2012-01-13
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File Group Backups - Intro
What is File Group backup?
Backing up a portion of a database, say a File Group is termed as Filegroup...
2012-01-13
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Friday SQL Nugget #1
Gee thanks Jes (blog|twitter). Just what I wanted, a little extra work on a Friday afternoon. I used to like...
2012-01-13
1,443 reads
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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Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
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Smart AI Agents and Data Security
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RegEx Functions IV
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Question of the Day
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