This Week In Data – Episode 6 (Why Companies are Choosing Power BI)
Welcome back to another episode of This Week In Data! If you missed our previous episodes, you can watch them...
2016-09-28
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DBCC CLONEDATABASE and sensitive data
Just over 2 months ago Service Pack 2 for SQL server 2014 was released. Included in this Service Pack is...
2016-09-28
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An open letter to the PASS community
PASS is our community.
It may sound a little cliche in this time of election propaganda in the US, but it’s...
2016-09-28
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Connecting to Twitter with R and RStudio
Social Media and Analytics is always an interesting combination. Twitter has an API that you can so you can connect...
2016-09-28
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Query shortcuts in SQL Server Management Studio
Tired of typing out the same queries day after day? Well query shortcuts in SSMS are for you!
Following on from...
2016-10-13 (first published: 2016-09-28)
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Power BI Desktop hosted on premises with SSRS 2016
UPDATE 2016-10-27: the preview is available as a VM in the Azure Marketplace. More information can be found on the...
2016-10-12 (first published: 2016-09-28)
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A really simple bug with SSMS
If you’re a long time IT professional or an occasional user of high or even low tech software you’ll know...
2016-09-28
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Configuring Passwordless PowerShell Remoting over SSH
Open Source PowerShell has been on fire, getting tons of community support and really making people think about what’s to come with a single language to manage a heterogenous...
2016-09-28
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Configuring Passwordless PowerShell Remoting over SSH
Open Source PowerShell has been on fire, getting tons of community support and really making people think about what’s to...
2016-09-28
3,447 reads
SQL Server Execution Plan Operator – Table Scan
In my previous blog we discussed about the different format of SQL Server execution plan. Now in upcoming blogs we...
2016-09-28
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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