My Thoughts: Report Builder 2.0
General Thoughts
One of my brother’s favorite lines to use in presentations says it best, “If Microsoft had 10 dollars to...
2008-12-02
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Blog Posts
Quickbooks 2009 - Not As Good as 2007
Recently I needed to rearrange some stuff at the office and part of that included moving our install of Quickbooks...
2008-12-02
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The Next Generation DBA
DBA, database developer, analyst, SQL grunt, or whatever your title may be, there is no question that your role will...
2008-12-02
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[Off Topic] Web host is down
For my colleagues and friend who visit my websites (www.bucketofbits.com, www.tyleris.com, www.timmitchell.net), I just discovered that my web host has...
2008-12-01
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American History Quiz
I ran across this history quiz in Jeff Duntemann's blog and thought I'd give it a try. I managed to...
2008-12-01
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Rangers to Masters
The new Certified Master program sounds suspiciously like the Microsoft Certified Architect program, which appears to have been revamped to...
2008-12-01
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Switching to Live Search
Steve Ballmer issued a challenge to MVPs a couple weeks ago, asking them to switch to Live Search this week...
2008-12-01
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Is the PASS Summit Too Big?
That's the question posed by Kalen Delaney in a write up on SQLMag.com. Is a SQL event of more than...
2008-11-30
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Microsoft Certified Master program – Is This The Answer to Certification Woes?
In the past few years, many people - myself included - have expressed a desire to see the quality of the Microsoft...
2008-11-29
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Grouping Sets
I have given a talk about new data types and T-SQL features to three local groups. I am presenting it...
2008-11-28
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Blogs
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...
T-SQL Tuesday
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
Exploring DiskANN: Part 2: PQ, SSDs, caching and beam search
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...
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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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RegEx Functions II
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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