New MVPs
Today's the day that new MVPs are notified for Q3 and two longtime community members, Jeff Moden and Michael Coles,...
2008-07-01
712 reads
Blog Posts
Quick and Dirty Code Compare
MS Word 2007 (and probably earlier versions) have the ability to do a basic document compare, useful if you're at...
2008-06-30
1,337 reads
Slacking and data quality (in that order)
Well, I almost missed blogging for the entire month of June. I'm sure that this fact didn't go unnoticed by...
2008-06-30
1,403 reads
Why Format TSQL?
Recently I had the chance to help a student debug a problem on a production server. It appeared to be...
2008-06-29
1,465 reads
More Kindle
I'm still on the fence here about a Kindle. I pinged someone that bought one and he said they're returning...
2008-06-26
1,503 reads
Volunteering
Recently I was visiting with an old acquaintance and one of the topics that came up was volunteers. At some...
2008-06-26
2,219 reads
One Note - Part II
Apparently other people like One Note. Microsoft is using it for learning content, and I think that's a cool idea....
2008-06-25
1,576 reads
SQLSaturday Call for Speakers - Cleveland & Olympia
Call for speakers is open for SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia, WA on Oct 10 (note that the MS BI conference...
2008-06-25
1,467 reads
Employee or 1099?
My friend Wes Dumey does a lot of work in the business intelligence sector as a contract employee and has...
2008-06-24
1,622 reads
SSWUG Virtual Conference II
Today is day one of the SSWUG SQL Server Virtual Conference II. This has been really fun so far. Our...
2008-06-24
1,520 reads
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...
Forums
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