Cool Windows 8 Blog
For those of you interested in cool new technology, you should definitely check out ?Building Windows 8? which is a...
2011-11-11
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Blog Posts
Parallel execution in SSIS
Parallel execution in SSIS improves performance on computers that have multiple physical or logical processors. To support parallel execution of...
2011-11-11
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SQL Server 2008R2 BI Presenations
I recently gave a couple of presentations about the new Business Intelligence features in SQL Server 2008 R2. Here are...
2011-11-11
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SQL Server 2012 Licensing and Hardware Considerations
Last week, Microsoft announced some pretty fundamental changes in how SQL Server 2012 will be licensed compared to previous versions...
2011-11-11
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SQL University: Advanced Indexing – Indexing Strategies
Right, I know it’s Friday and everyone’s tired and looking forward to the weekend, but I do need to finish...
2011-11-11
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#SSRS error – An item with the same key has already been added
Here is a simple yet annoying error I ran into while creating a dataset. Below is the query that I...
2011-11-10
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Creating a Transaction Log Full Alert
When I was a kid, my mom had an old cookie-tin in which she kept her sewing supplies. On the...
2011-11-10
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My Playbook For Putting On a SQLSaturday Part 3: Food
Feed Me Seymour!
Welcome to your number one cost. Every budget I’ve looked at so far food is the top expense...
2011-11-10
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Notes from SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa
Quick notes as it is already Thursday!
The speaker party went well. Well attended, I spent a lot of time chatting...
2011-11-10
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SQL People PASS Board interview is online–Please Comment!
Hey folks,
Welcome back to the PASS election process. The process moves forward with all of us candidates awaiting our ranking...
2011-11-10
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Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Forums
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