Bigger Fact Table for Wide World Importers
Microsoft released a new sample database a couple of months back: Wide World Importers. It’s quite great: not every (unnecessary...
2016-08-22 (first published: 2016-08-12)
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Are SQL Saturday’s Worth It?
This past weekend I was fortunate enough to be a part of Louisville’s (for those local the ‘ville) SQL Saturday event held...
2016-08-18 (first published: 2016-08-12)
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CJIS and the Microsoft Cloud
Having a cloud you can trust is important. Microsoft takes security and compliance extremely seriously in both the commercial and government...
2016-08-12
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Next for the PoSh VC: PowerShell, SQL and Power BI
That’s right, PowerShell & Power BI. How does this work you ask? Well back in July, Rob Sewell ( b | t ) gave us a preview of this,...
2016-08-12
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Next for the PoSh VC: PowerShell, SQL and Power BI
That’s right, PowerShell & Power BI.
How does this work you ask?
Well back in July, Rob Sewell ( b | t ) gave us...
2016-08-12
252 reads
TGI SQL Friday – Weekly round up Friday 12 August 2016
This week has seen the launch of my new SQL Server newsletter in conjunction with Learning Tree. If you would...
2016-08-12
364 reads
Using PowerShell to find Processor issues & more
One of the top three performance killers for SQL Server is lack of processing power. I’d say that it’s second...
2016-08-18 (first published: 2016-08-11)
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Tricky TSQL: NOT IN (NULL)
We’ve done this before, but we can go one better this time. Let’s take this step by step. NULL means...
2016-08-11
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Opening .SQL Files in SSMS 2016 by Default #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-08-11
11,008 reads
Write-Only permissions
Yep, that’s right, you heard me. Write-Only not Read-Only. I was presenting SQL Server Security Basics at NTSSUG the other...
2016-08-11
617 reads
Blogs
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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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