Changing connection colours in SQL Server Management Studio
A simple but effective setting in SQL Server Management Studio is using custom colours to identify which server you are...
2016-09-22
1,143 reads
BYO Time Zone Conversion With SSAS DMVs
This is just a quick note (since I apparently forgot and was puzzled for a moment) that the MDSCHEMA_CUBES DMV...
2016-09-21
498 reads
This Week In Data – Episode 5 (Data Visualization Best Practices)
Welcome back to another episode of This Week In Data! If you missed our previous episodes, you can watch them...
2016-09-21
593 reads
ReadyRoll for Database Deployments
This is the 4th post in the series named SQL Server and Continuous Integration. The first 3 posts covered the need...
2016-10-03 (first published: 2016-09-21)
1,360 reads
Making sense of Microsoft technology
In my role as a Data Platform Solution Architect (DPSA) at Microsoft, part of my responsibility is to keep up with...
2016-09-21
701 reads
xSQL Schema/Data Compare database list is empty
Applies to: xSQL Schema Compare v 7.0.0 to v 9.0.0; xSQL Data Compare v 7.0.0 to v 9.0.0
Summary: When adding databases to the workspace both in xSQL Schema Compare...
2016-09-21
20 reads
xSQL Schema/Data Compare database list is empty
Applies to: xSQL Schema Compare v 7.0.0 to v 9.0.0; xSQL Data Compare v 7.0.0 to v 9.0.0
Summary: When adding...
2016-09-21
343 reads
Future DBA – Hadoop Big Data
As we discussed on earlier blog that in future its more than SQL-(R)DBMS, as data is growing we have to...
2016-09-21
433 reads
A quick fix for a full identity column.
A while back I wrote a post on everything I knew about identity columns. In it I mentioned the following:
Negative...
2016-10-03 (first published: 2016-09-21)
2,073 reads
Associative Statistics – One sample T-Test with TSQL and R
In this post am going to attempt to explore a statistical procedure called ‘One Sample T Test’.
A T-Test is used...
2016-09-30 (first published: 2016-09-21)
1,954 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
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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