dataMinds Connect 2024 – Session Materials
The slides and scripts for my session “Tackling the Gaps & Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions” at dataMinds Connect 2024 can be downloaded from GitHub. If you want...
2024-10-10
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Want to Supercharge Your Business? SQL is Your Secret Weapon.
Look, we all know data is king these days. But having mountains of data and actually using it to make your business better are two different things. That's where...
2024-10-10
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What do client diagnostics in Cosmos DB mean?
This topic keeps coming up with my customers so the purpose of this blog post is to keep all the useful information in one post. Think of this post...
2024-10-23 (first published: 2024-10-09)
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Adding Row Numbers to a Query: #SQLNewBlogger
I realized that I hadn’t done much blogging on Window functions in T-SQL, and I’ve done a few presentations, so I decided to round out my blog a bit....
2024-10-09
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Adding Row Numbers to a Query: #SQLNewBlogger
I realized that I hadn’t done much blogging on Window functions in T-SQL, and I’ve done a few presentations, so I decided to round out my blog a bit....
2024-10-09
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When It’s No Longer Viable
Sometimes a solution is no longer viable because there isn’t a path forward and sometimes a solution isn’t viable because there are better options out there from the organization’s...
2024-10-09
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When It’s Still Viable
If a technology is still viable, don’t overlook it. Don’t get caught up chasing the “shiny” or the “perfect” solution just because you can.
2024-10-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #179: The Detective’s Toolkit
It’s time for the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. This month a longtime friend, Tim Mitchell is hosting and he’s got a neat invite. He’s asking us how to...
2024-10-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #179: The Detective’s Toolkit
It’s time for the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. This month a longtime friend, Tim Mitchell is hosting and he’s got a neat invite. He’s asking us how to...
2024-10-08
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Moving T-SQL Tuesday to Jekyll
I got a message a few months back that Microsoft was deprecating the MySQL server version that I was using in Azure. The cost was going up, and while...
2024-10-07
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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