A Guatemalan's Guide to Drinking Coffee Properly
My mugI grew up surrounded by coffee farms in Guatemala and somehow spent most of my adult life drinking whatever was closest, usually instant, usually while standing over the...
2026-08-12
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Blog Posts
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview) to find cryptographic weaknesses in two algorithms. However, this doesn't impact anything anyone has in...
2026-08-12 (first published: 2026-07-29)
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Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out of the database, calls Amazon Bedrock, and writes the vectors back. That is a second...
2026-08-12 (first published: 2026-07-29)
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My Social Media Rules
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of self-reflection when I realized I was spending time wastefully arguing with folks on the various...
2026-08-12
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Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL Server Central: Getting the Average. Isn’t is slower? A fair question. This quick post looks...
2026-08-12
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Excellent article on securing msdb
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's why you should read it if you're a DBA or security professional.
2026-08-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many people have stopped blogging that it’s a challenge to keep this going. Jeff Taylor has...
2026-08-11
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When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than simply creating one and using it. As I started digging into the topic, I realized...
2026-08-11
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Accept the no and move on
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin. When we are rejected, whatever the situation, many of us want to know why. We...
2026-08-10
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Adding an HTTP MCP Server to VSCode
I wrote earlier this week about the SQL MCP Server using the Data API Builder. In that post I showed how to query the MCP server from VSCode, but...
2026-08-10 (first published: 2026-07-29)
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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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RegEx Functions II
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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