Why Separate Your Compute From Your Storage
There are many advantages to using Microsoft Azure. One big reason people look at Azure is the ability to separate...
2018-09-04
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DataOnWheels
How Do Azure Subscriptions Work?
In this Azure Every Day installment, I’d like to talk about your organization’s subscription hierarchy. When working with Azure, it...
2018-09-14 (first published: 2018-08-31)
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ARM vs Classic Deployment in Azure
When Azure Resource Manager (ARM) was created back in 2014, I (like many) thought, “What does that mean?” Up until...
2018-08-30
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How Azure Storage Kick Starts Your Big Data Projects
So, your boss says, ‘Let’s do big data!’ And you think: ‘I don’t even know what that means or what...
2018-08-29
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How Do Azure Accounts and Subscriptions Work Together?
Azure accounts vs. Azure subscriptions – often a topic that brings some confusion to Azure newbies. Are they the same? What’s...
2018-08-28
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Advantages of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Deployment Model
Are you just starting out with Azure and wonder: What is Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Deployment Model? Or what’s the...
2018-08-27
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Azure Every Day, Azure Data Week, and More Azure
As you likely know, I am a Principal Consultant at Pragmatic Works. This year we have been doing some great...
2018-08-25
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Power BI Data Security – Power BI Report Server
Power BI Report Server was released as a way to host reports on premises. It was one of the highest...
2018-05-31
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Power BI and Data Security – Audit Logs, Powershell, Power BI and @AngryAnalytics
The following has been reposted with permission from Steve Howard a.k.a. @AngryAnalytics. I have made some formatting changes but the...
2018-05-24
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SQL Saturday – Dallas – May 2018
I was able to present at SQL Saturday Dallas this year. Thanks to those of you who were able to...
2018-05-22
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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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building a SQL Server Fleet...
Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Split Large Queries in Athena...
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