Better Backup
I’ve been managing backups of my video files using USB hard drives for a year, and I’m fed up. I...
2009-04-16
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Blog Posts
Book Review: Best of SQL Server Central Volume 6
If you've never looked at one of these they are compilations of some of the best/most popular articles since the...
2009-04-16
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SQL Saturday Pensacola - Schedule published
The event schedule for SQL Saturday Pensacola has been published. This event will be held on Saturday, June 6 at...
2009-04-16
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The Maintenance Plan Wizard Can Lead You Astray
In theory, the SQL Server Maintenance Plan Wizard is supposed to make it easier for non-DBAs or novice DBAs to...
2009-04-16
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Don’t Make Dumb Mistakes by Duplicating Indexes
Just today, I was reviewing the indexing of a database used by a third-party application. As part of my review,...
2009-04-15
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Full Text Catalog Scripting "Gotcha" in SSMS 2008
With every new version of SQL Server comes a set of deprecated features. Usually Microsoft gives fair warning that these...
2009-04-15
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Last Call for Speakers for SQLSaturday #7 in Birmingham on May 30
I just had a call with John Baldwin who is leading the effort in Birmingham and there plenty of action...
2009-04-15
304 reads
Learn How to Use the SQL Server 2008 Transact-SQL Debugger
Bill Ramos, a SQL Server Product Manager, has written a three part series on how to use the SQL Server...
2009-04-15
859 reads
Microsoft Releases Updated White Paper on Troubleshooting SQL Server 2008 Performance
Microsoft has finally updated their classis Troubleshooting SQL Server Performance white paper for SQL Server 2008, which is available at:
Troubleshooting...
2009-04-15
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Portland, OR Code Camp Set for May 30, 2009
The Portland Code Camp will be held at Reed College on Saturday, May 30, 2009. This free event will include...
2009-04-15
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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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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