Routing OSPF and Network Team
After a server move to the failover Data Centre – a file copy between the two sites slowed down by 6x. ...
2011-12-21
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn is a new integrated high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solution that provides redundancy within a datacenter and across datacenters...
2011-12-21
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VirtualBox – Cannot Register the Hard Drive Because a Hard Drive with UUID Already Exists
Virtualization is awesome! It really helps when you are a developer. On my laptop I don’t even have SQL Server...
2011-12-21
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2011 PASS Board Elections Notes
As I write this the final hours for the 2011 PASS Board of Directors elections are ticking away. Before the...
2011-12-20
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FOR XML PATH using node tests in column aliases
I've used SQL to generate countless blobs of xml over the years and one feature that I have come to...
2011-12-20 (first published: 2011-12-15)
8,860 reads
Full Load. Incremental Load. Whaaat?
Back when i was in school, me and a bunch of friends used to hangout at a diner. The diner was...
2011-12-20
6,725 reads
How I Got Started in Software Development-A Tribute to Ed
A tribute is an expression of gratitude or praise. As I head into this holiday season I wanted to express...
2011-12-20
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Mark a Disk Partition as Inactive
If you are like me then you like to reinstall Windows on your laptop every few months to keep things...
2011-12-20
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Modifying SQL Server Synonyms
One task that often needs to be done when migrating a database to production for the first time is to...
2011-12-20
1,415 reads
Public Role and Security
A good rule of thumb with the public role is to leave it be. Do not add permissions to this role. Add permissions on a per database and per...
2011-12-20
21 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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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