The 2019 State of DevOps Report–Webinar
Tomorrow I get to chat with another giant in the world of DevOps: Jez Humble. I actually met Jez years ago at a conference, and I was honored to...
2019-09-17
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Blog Posts
Use port forwarding to access SQL Server running in Kubernetes
A really handy feature in Kubernetes is port forwarding. This can be used to narrow down an issue when connections are failing to SQL Server running in a cluster....
2019-09-17 (first published: 2019-09-04)
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Using strace inside a SQL Server Container
So, if you’ve been following my blog you know my love for internals. Well, I needed to find out exactly how something worked at the startup of a SQL...
2019-09-17 (first published: 2019-09-03)
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Weekly reading #26
Good morning! It was a tough weekend as we supposed to be in Goteborg on #SQLSatGothenburg but unfortunatelly the flu hit us hard. The talk was handed over by...
2019-09-17
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Weekly reading #26
Good morning! It was a tough weekend as we supposed to be in Goteborg on #SQLSatGothenburg but unfortunatelly the flu hit us hard. The talk was handed over by...
2019-09-17
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Delete an Azure DevOps Project
Not something you’ll do too often, but you might find yourself doing this if you are setting up PoCs and removing them. A reminder for me, since I stumbled...
2019-09-16
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Finding SQL Configuration Manager in Windows 10–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I went to check a network protocol setting...
2019-09-16 (first published: 2019-08-28)
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Ways to access data in ADLS Gen2
With data lakes becoming popular, and Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 being used for many of them, a common question I am asked about is “How can I...
2019-09-16
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Whitespace, Letter Case, and Other Things That Prevent Plan Reuse
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. Last week’s post briefly mentioned that SQL server may not reuse a query plan from cache if there is a small difference in whitespace....
2019-09-16 (first published: 2019-09-03)
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Restoring Backups from Azure Blob with dbatools
Recently I needed to write a PowerShell script that could build a backup set from a collection of backups stored in Azure Blob Storage without any backup history available...
2019-09-15
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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...
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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