Speaker at SQL Saturday# 908 – Denver 2019
I’m very happy to announce that this will be my second time participating as speaker at the SQL Saturday# 908 in Denver! Here are the details of the session...
2019-10-09
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Virtual Machines in Azure
Let’s create a virtual machine in Azure that has an imaged copy of SQL Server on it. I want to do this because down the line I want to...
2019-10-09
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Using indexed views? Don’t forget this important tip.
Today after fighting with designing a view that let me create a clustered index on it (indexed views — also known as materialized views — are awesome in the right context!),...
2019-10-09
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Communicating Effectively at the Workplace
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #119 prompt by Alex Yates. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...
2019-10-08
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Communicating Effectively at the Workplace
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #119 prompt by Alex Yates. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...
2019-10-08
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Graph – Shortest Path
‘Shortest path’ is by far the most feature of SQL Graph for now. What does this even mean? ‘Shortest path’ is the term accorded to the shortest distance between...
2019-10-08 (first published: 2019-09-22)
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Power BI for Communication and Marketing
We often focus on deep analysis and insights generated by machine learning when we talk about Power BI these days because it’s super cool and very fancy. But I...
2019-10-08 (first published: 2019-09-26)
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SQL in the City/PASS Summit
My great organization, Redgate, is doing things a little different this year at PASS Summit. Instead of hosting our own event, we’ve decided to host a pre-con at the...
2019-10-08
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SQL Server Admin Best Practices with DMV's at GroupBy
Excited to be presenting at virtual GroupBy Conference for the first time on Thursday, during the North America time slots. I just finished tuning up this old presentation that I've presented...
2019-10-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #119 – Changing My Mind
This post is for the most recent #tsql2sday, a monthly exercise where a topic is proposed by a community member and everyone is invited to post their thoughts on...
2019-10-08
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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...
Forums
Stored Procedures for Server-Level Object and Column Search
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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