Why you should ask your CTO to attend the User group meetings.
When we (Bill Wunder and me) started our user group, the first person we invited to sign up to our...
2011-05-06
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Blog Posts
A row has no row number
It seems that every month I have someone asking the question about ordering or row numbers for a query. Let’s...
2011-05-05
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Certifications – and a survey.
G’day,
There’s a lot of mixed opinions around about certifications.
Are they worth while, do they mean anything, do employers value them...
2011-05-05
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Correcting Image Distortion in PDF Reports
I’ve seen a few cases where reports exported or rendered to PDF have distorted charts and images. We’ve played with...
2011-05-05
1,695 reads
I Won't Be at SQL Rally
I am excited about the SQL Rally event that's coming up next week. However, I won't be there. I've been...
2011-05-05
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My Partitioning And Compression Quest! (Continued)
Thank you, David C, for your comment! Please see below to the answers to
your questions.
The table structure is:
CREATE TABLE...
2011-05-05
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My PASS Summit Submissions
Following Andy Leonard's (blog | twitter) footsteps, here are my PASS Summit submissions. I decided to go a little different this...
2011-05-05
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Orlando 101 For SQLRally Attendees: Accommodations & Travel
The inaugural SQLRally in Orlando is less than a week away (May 11-13)! Maybe you're coming to Orlando for the...
2011-05-05
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Orlando 101 For SQLRally Attendees: Entertainment
The inaugural SQLRally in Orlando is less than a week away (May 11-13)! Maybe you're coming to Orlando for the...
2011-05-05
870 reads
Orlando 101 For SQLRally Attendees: Shopping
The inaugural SQLRally in Orlando is less than a week away (May 11-13)! Maybe you're coming to Orlando for the...
2011-05-05
684 reads
Blogs
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
Forums
Stored Procedures for Server-Level Object and Column Search
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Databricks Genie Spaces for SQL Analysts: Natural Language Querying Without Leaving Your Data Platform
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The Costs of Multiple Platforms
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
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') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers