Say hello to SQL Live Health Check - part 1
When you need to manage a number of SQL instances, monitoring them becomes one of your priority task. In some...
2016-09-30
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PowerShell -> Identify all SysAdmins in your SQL Server
No pressure. None whatsoever. There is just an Auditor standing behind you waiting for you to pull a list of...
2016-10-06 (first published: 2016-09-29)
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Finding the Attribute
I was playing with some Extended Events recently. If you haven’t tried, I’d encourage you to do so. However, working...
2016-09-29
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Cortana Intelligence Solutions
Cortana Intelligence Solutions is a new tool just released in public preview that enables users to rapidly discover, easily provision, quickly experiment...
2016-09-29
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Volunteering With PASS
I was just asked how many times I’ve been to the PASS Summit. This year will be my 12th consecutive...
2016-09-29
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Performance-Oriented T-SQL Development in Belgium
On October 10, I will come back to present in one of my favorite SQL Server conferences – SQL Server Days...
2016-09-29
614 reads
Want to Win a Free @LearningTree Course? #LtreRox - @tangentc is the first ever twitter winner!!!
As regular readers of this blog will know I teach some data courses for Learning Tree. Recently Learning Tree has...
2016-09-29
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Mastering Index – Introduction
One of the most interesting and talked about topic in database field is Index. I am writing this Series of...
2016-09-29
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My application to Microsoft
I have been eager to write this blog post for a while now. I want to share my experience of...
2016-09-29
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I’m speaking at SQL PASS 2016 (Speaker Idol)
It’s always been my dream to speak at SQL PASS Summit. It’s a tough egg to crack. In my experience...
2016-09-29
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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
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Smart AI Agents and Data Security
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RegEx Functions IV
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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