Back for a Day
I hope everyone is well in Florida, but the hurricane caused a postponement of SQL Saturday Orlando. Fortunately I caught...
2016-10-07
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SQL Performance Dashboards – update
SQL Server Performance Dashboards – update The first article that I ever wrote (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server/127992/) was last year where I wanted to...
2016-10-07
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Networking Dinner at the 2016 PASS Summit
Steve Jones & I are organizing our 7th annual networking dinner on Monday night, October 24th in Seattle. We’re changing the...
2016-10-06
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Synchronizing NOT NULL Columns
Applies to: xSQL Schema Compare v7.0.0 – v 9.0.0, xSQL Data
Compare v7.0.0 – v9.0.0
Description: Using
xSQL Schema Compare and xSQL Data Compare to keep the tables of two databases
in sync...
2016-10-06
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Synchronizing NOT NULL Columns
Applies to: xSQL Schema Compare v7.0.0 – v 9.0.0, xSQL Data Compare v7.0.0 – v9.0.0
Description: Using xSQL Schema Compare and xSQL Data...
2016-10-06
430 reads
May MVP – Bob Pusateri
Whoa. I’m way behind in my blogging.
For the month of May, my MVP choice is Bob Pusateri (B|T).
Bob is a...
2016-10-06
450 reads
How to get Power BI RLS to work with external users
Let me start by thanking Adam Saxton aka Guy in a Cube and Hope Foley for helping me with this...
2016-10-06
3,406 reads
Sp_recompile doesn't recompile!!!!
Many of us use the stored procedure "sp_recompile" to mark the stored procedure for recompilation, so that next time it...
2016-10-06
1,124 reads
VOTE!!! PASS Board of Director Elections
It is voting season again, and there is a great group of individuals running for the Board of Directors of...
2016-10-06
366 reads
ALTER INDEX….ABORT!
I know there are people out there that will be going from older versions of SQL to SQL Server 2016, yes...
2016-10-06
495 reads
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