Running Totals for Each Group
A while ago, I posted a blog on how one could perform running totals using Reporting Services and a user...
2010-10-11
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BrianKMcDonald
Time Saver – Presentation Preparation
Presenting is a huge fear for many and it is no different for me. I have been presenting at SQL...
2010-10-10
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Determine if Directory Exists using xp_cmdshell
Recently, I came across a forum post from a user trying to determine if a directory existed in the file...
2010-10-06
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SQL Saturday 49 Orlando - Delivery Mechanisms using SQL Server Reporting Services (mini)
It's official! I am presenting a mini session for SQL Saturday in Orlando. My topic and some details are below:
Delivery...
2010-10-05
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MSDB Job History Duration Conversion
Have you ever queried the msdb tables to get duration details about a particular job? I’ve had to do this...
2010-10-05
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Converting Dates to Integers
While working on a project recently, I came across a conversion that was trying to convert a date to an...
2010-10-05
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Strange but True - Report Parameter Label Blank
Here is another one of those strange but true things that I come across every so often which I thought...
2010-10-01
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Retrieving Report Names for SSRS Subscription Jobs
The way Reporting Services creates subscriptions is through generating a SQL Server Agent job. This is apparent when you look...
2010-09-01
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Using WITH NOLOCK
A colleague of mine and I were recently talking about some scripts that they had seen containing the WITH NOLOCK...
2010-09-01
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Dynamic SQL and Cached Query Plans
Over the many years that I’ve been dealing with SQL Server, I’ve always been told and read about how using...
2010-08-29
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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