Professional Growth – Community Involvement
As part of my professional development and to help raise my professional profile, I have become more involved with my...
2009-08-25
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Blog Posts
24 Hours of PASS
Image a full day of SQL Server and BI training. Even better yet, a full day of FREE training. Well PASS (Professional...
2009-08-24
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Article Of the Week
I really enjoy reading technical articles. They often enlighten me on new technologies or provide me with a new way...
2009-08-24
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I went silly
Well, a little silly at least. I wrote yesterday about winning a gift certificate to ThinkGeek, and wondering what to...
2009-08-24
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PASS Board of Directors Call for Nominations
This is just a reminder that the call for nominations for the PASS Boards of Directors is open. The final...
2009-08-24
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Spare Yourself Installation Issues by Downloading the Latest SQL 2008 ISO Image
Recently, we began the install of a new instance on a VMware Host and ran into an issue with a problematic outdated...
2009-08-24
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SQLSaturday #23 - Session Submitted
I'm committed to SQLSaturday #23 in Louisville on October 24, 2009. I got a note the other day from the...
2009-08-24
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Stats blob corruptions
There have been a couple odd types of corruption that I’ve been seeing on the forums. I want to take...
2009-08-24
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The Need for a College Degree
I'm reading through Brad McGehee'sHow to Be an Exceptional DBAand in chapter 4 he talks about having the right skill...
2009-08-24
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Types Matter!
Louis Davidson (@DrSql) had an excellent series on his blog on the Pillars of Database Design and the one of...
2009-08-24
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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...
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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