SSRS - Embedded Custom Code
When developing reports in Reporting Services you will often use the built-in
expression language to make report data and formatting...
2012-01-12 (first published: 2012-01-05)
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Blog Posts
Check Version of SharePoint 2010 Currently Installed
There are several ways to check the version of SharePoint 2010 currently installed in your environment. That about sums up...
2012-01-11
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Choosing the right professional
I’m writing this blog post from my bed, you may think that’s a little too much information there is a...
2012-01-11
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Houston Area SQL Server User Group Presentation
Thanks for everyone who attended my presentation “How To Make a LOT More Money as a Consultant” at HASSUG.
Here is...
2012-01-11
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Normalizing Your Database
If you’ve been working with databases for any length of time, you have heard the term normalization.
Normalization is the process...
2012-01-11 (first published: 2012-01-06)
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SQL Server – Backup to NUL trick - read throughput
A neat test for read speed backup throughput is to use the Backup to NUL .
NUL is a special “file”. It's...
2012-01-11
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System Stored Procedures
I've been using 4 alerts for corruption now for about 2 years for Errors 823, 824, 825 and 9100. Basically...
2012-01-11
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Video/Voice conferencing and Microsoft Lync
Since I work mostly from home, video/voice conferencing and IM are of major importance to me, and using the right...
2012-01-11
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FIRST_VALUE() Analytic Function–SQL Server 2012
Given a customer table:
CREATE TABLE Customers
(CustId INT, OrderDate DATE, OrderAmount MONEY) ;
INSERT Customers VALUES
(1, ’2011-12-03', 12500)
, (1, ’2011-10-07', 15000)
, (1,...
2012-01-10
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How safe are your secrets?
We’ve all have service accounts, application accounts, sysadmin and domain admin accounts and other privileged shared accounts on our systems....
2012-01-10
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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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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