Why I am called BlobEater
It’s coming towards the holiday season for me and I thought that I would wind-down a little with a non-technical...
2016-12-17
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All About SQL
Locking Resources in Azure
I look at locking resources within Azure as a safety mechanism where it can protect users from accidental deletion, it...
2016-12-16
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CHECKDB and Page Restoring from SSMS
Did you know that you can run DBCC CHECKDB (WITH PHYSICAL_ONLY) and issue page restores from SSMS (SQL Server Management...
2016-12-15
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Don’t blink you might READPAST it
Following on from my previous post on NOLOCK (https://blobeater.blog/2016/12/09/nolock/) I want to talk about another hint called READPAST. This hint tells...
2016-12-13
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NOLOCK
NOLOCK, some say it’s a fast option for queries and will never cause blocking, I say it’s quite dirty and...
2016-12-09
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TDE Recovery
This week’s TSQL Tuesday is being held by the mighty Kenneth Fisher – Backup and Recovery- see this link, how can...
2016-12-26 (first published: 2016-12-07)
1,514 reads
Checking your Wait Stats via Power BI
Wait stats is my go to thing, however I do get bored just querying it via a table so I...
2016-12-06
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I use Elastic database pools – for now
When you have many SQL databases that are required to run your environments and they show signs of specific usage...
2016-12-12 (first published: 2016-12-02)
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Azure pricing
Not a technical post today (not that I am technical) but still an important one. I have been using Azure...
2016-12-01
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SQL Server – Playing With Trace Flags
Trace flags are used to temporarily set specific server characteristics or to switch off a particular behavior. They are usually...
2016-12-01
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Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Forums
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
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Smart AI Agents and Data Security
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RegEx Functions IV
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
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', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers