SQL in the City Streamed Next Week
I’m off to the UK this weekend, for a few commitments next week. One of those is SQL in the City Streamed, which is taking place on Wednesday September...
2019-08-30
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Blog Posts
Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 2
This is the second post in a series about modern Data Lake Architecture
where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using Delta Lake,
Databricks and...
2019-08-29
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 2
This is the second post in a series about modern Data Lake Architecture
where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using Delta Lake,
Databricks and...
2019-08-29
921 reads
Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 2
This is the second post in a series about modern Data Lake Architecture
where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using Delta Lake,
Databricks and...
2019-08-29
42 reads
Help! My Apache Spark configuration on windows isn't working (I think)
Steps needed Getting Apache Spark running on windows involves:
Installing a JRE 8 (Java 1.8/OpenJDK 8) Downloading and extracting SPARK and setting SPARK_HOME Downloading winutils.exe and setting HADOOP_HOME If...
2019-08-29
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Help! My Apache Spark configuration on windows isn't working (I think)
Steps needed Getting Apache Spark running on windows involves:
Installing a JRE 8 (Java 1.8/OpenJDK 8) Downloading and extracting SPARK and setting SPARK_HOME Downloading winutils.exe and setting HADOOP_HOME If...
2019-08-29
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More PowerShell Remoting coverage in dbatools
Starting on dbatools version 1.0.31 we introduced better coverage for commands that make use of PowerShell Remoting. Which commands? Commands like Get-DbaComputerCertificate, Get-DbaPrivilege, Get-DbaClientAlias, just to mention a few...
2019-08-29 (first published: 2019-08-20)
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New product: Azure Data Share
A brand new product by Microsoft called Azure Data Share was recently announced. It is in public preview. To explain the product in short, any data which resides in...
2019-08-29 (first published: 2019-08-19)
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sp_RestoreScript 1.6 Release – @Credential Added For Backups In Azure BLOB Storage
Releases seem to be coming out thick and fast at the moment, here’s the latest v1.6 revision to sp_restorescript For those of you backing up to Azure BLOB Storage,...
2019-08-29
61 reads
Profiler and Trace vs. Extended Events
It’s a running joke among the more experienced (read, older) Microsoft Data Platform specialists as to whether you’re #teamprofiler or #teamexevents. I’m very much #teamexevents, but I really don’t...
2019-08-28 (first published: 2019-08-19)
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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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stored Procedures for Server-Level Object...
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