Good Ideas Take Time or How to Brainstorm - Part 1
Occasionally I'm asked how I come up with ideas for my blog to maintain the just about one a day...
2008-10-22
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Blog Posts
Free SQL Server Health & History (SQLH2) Tool Updated for SQL Server 2008
Microsoft's free SQL Server Health & History tool (SQLH2) has had a minor update and can now be used with SQL...
2008-10-21
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Water & Cell Phones Don't Mix
Obviously, right?
I managed to knock my Blackberry Curve off the bar and into a bowl of water in the sink....
2008-10-21
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"The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with."
I know, another non-technical blog post. But this one is career-related as well.
In high school I was introduced to...
2008-10-20
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SQL Server Messages: fairies rearranging furniture.
SQL Server and Sybase are geared up
to send information to applications over two distinct channels, the results in
one channel that...
2008-10-20
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Todo List Follow Up - The Notepad
Recently I posted about Managing My Todo List and I had a question via email about what notepad I was...
2008-10-20
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Understanding Microsoft Licenses - A Short Follow Up
I posted Do You Understand Microsoft Licenses about a week ago, and today happened to run across a note about...
2008-10-20
537 reads
Who Wants to Be Rich
Late in getting this one out there, but it's interesting to see people's responses. Especially to my story.
As a kid...
2008-10-20
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"To Lead Is To Follow"
I first ran across these words as a Citadel cadet. Now those who know of my days at El Cid...
2008-10-19
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Final Preparations for SQLSaturday #8 on October 25th, 2008
I suspect final preparations will stretch all the way through next Saturday morning, but at this point we've done most...
2008-10-19
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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