Importing a BACPAC to SQL Server
We previously looked at Archiving Azure SQL Database to a BACPAC and in today’s post we are going to address...
2016-09-22 (first published: 2016-09-13)
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Statistics with TSQL and R: Chi Square Test
As I move on from descriptive and largely univariate (one variable based) analysis of data into more multivariate data – one...
2016-09-21 (first published: 2016-09-13)
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Top 5 Books for Database Developers
My Top 5 series of books has proved very popular. The first post titled Top 5 books for Enterprise Architecture was the...
2016-09-13
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DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP
Well, with the name “blobeater” it was about time I did another post on CHECKDB. This time I want to...
2016-09-14 (first published: 2016-09-13)
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World is changing so DBA should
I was going through SQLPASS recording and on first time I could see a session as “MongoDB for the SQL...
2016-09-13
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SQL Server 2016 In-Memory OLTP and After Trigger Support
SQL Server 2016 supports AFTER triggers! I could find no good example of how to do this with a project...
2016-09-12
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Azure Cognitive Services API’s with SQL Server 2016 CLR
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Azure Cognitive Services is relatively new functionality within Azure that exposes some truly amazing APIs that have the ability to do some truly amazing...
2016-09-12
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Azure Cognitive Services API’s with SQL Server 2016 CLR
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog]
Azure Cognitive Services is relatively new functionality within Azure that exposes some truly amazing APIs that...
2016-09-20 (first published: 2016-09-12)
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SQL Server Operations: Monitoring Disk Space with WMI and OLE Automation Objects
Abstract
This article talks about various SQL methods to fetch the disk usage details and use of T-SQL in conjunction with...
2016-09-20 (first published: 2016-09-12)
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The Clustered Index Is Vital To Your Database Design
This is post #9 supporting Tim Ford’s (b|t) initiative on #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel. Read about it here.
You get one clustered index per table.
That...
2016-09-19 (first published: 2016-09-12)
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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