In-Memory OLTP and the Identity Column
Over the past month I've been playing around with the new In-Memory OLTP (code name: "Hekaton") features within SQL Server...
2013-11-12
1,525 reads
Everyday SQL
TSQL Tuesday #47 - Your Best SQL Server SWAG
The host for T-SQL Tuesday #47 is Kendal Van Dyke (blog|twitter), and his topic of choice is about the best...
2013-10-08
966 reads
One Year Later
Wow! It’s been one year since I launched my blog, and my how things have changed.
Accomplishments Over the Past...
2013-09-24
707 reads
The Case of the NULL Query_Plan
As a DBA, we're often asked to troubleshoot performance issues for stored procedures. One of the most common tools at...
2013-09-06 (first published: 2013-09-03)
3,271 reads
How to Tell If Your Users are Connecting to the Availability Group Listener
You've spent a lot of time planning and building out a new SQL Server 2012 environment complete with Availability Group...
2013-08-29 (first published: 2013-08-27)
2,432 reads
PASS Summit 2013 - You Ain't From Around Here Are Ya?
I know what y'all are thinkin', what's Charlotte got to do with SQL Server? Just hear me out. There's a...
2013-08-20
1,295 reads
Are You the Primary Replica?
UPDATED -- Jul 3, 2015 -- To verify database exists, per comments by Konstantinos Katsoridis. Thanks for finding the bug!
In my recent adventures...
2013-07-23
1,657 reads
Setup an Availability Group with Multiple Subnets in VMware Workstation
Before we get started, I want to make it clear this is NOT how you would normally configure all these...
2013-07-16
2,535 reads
VMware vSphere Storage Performance - Thick vs Thin Provisioning
Industry experts will tell you that virtualization of your environment is not done to improve performance, it's done to make...
2013-06-25
4,470 reads
Investigating Plan Cache Bloat
SQL Server includes a DMV, sys.dm_exec_query_stats, that returns performance statistics for each query plan cached in memory. However, it can...
2013-05-28
1,143 reads
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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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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RegEx Functions II
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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