SQL Server 2012 – new conversion functions
With SQL Server 2012 comes a new set of conversion functions, that will certainly help doing type casts and conversions...
2011-12-20
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday Goes International
Looking at 2011 and the planned events so far for 2012 it’s easy to see that SQLSaturday is starting to...
2011-12-20
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Contracting is business not employment: Read the small print
This post is about a contracting in UK. Some of terms mentioned here will not mean a great deal to...
2011-12-19
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Creating a Service Master Key in SQL Server
The basis for all the encryption in SQL Server is the Service Master Key, which is the top of the...
2011-12-19
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How many times the T-SQL inside the CTE is executed?
Introduction
Common Table Expression (CTE) has become very popular these days. However, many users of CTE still have a myth that...
2011-12-19 (first published: 2011-12-15)
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Junk dimensions
Junk dimensions are dimensions that contain miscellaneous data such as flags and indicators. When designing a data warehouse, you might...
2011-12-19
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PASS Summit 2012 Evaluation Results
I say it all the time because it’s worth repeating, feedback is a gift. Good, bad or indifferent (well, not...
2011-12-19
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Pitching Pebbles – Using Certificates to Grant Privileges
If you fill the jar with pebbles first, you'll never have room for the big rocks.
I’m sure you’ve heard the...
2011-12-19
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Read About SQLSatuday #100 & See the Coffee Cup Too!
Here’s a great post from Karla Landrum about her trip (with husband Rodney) to Brazil for the milestone making #100....
2011-12-19
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SELECT GetDate() – 30 AS [This actually works??];
I just ran across this in a piece of code (that I didn’t write):
… WHERE Thing >GETDATE()- 30
Aaaand it works....
2011-12-19
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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