Azure SQL Database For Your First Database
This is post 8 supporting Tim Ford’s (b|t) initiative on #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel. Read about it here.
In post #6, I talked about...
2016-08-15 (first published: 2016-08-09)
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T-SQL Tuesday #81–Sharpening Skills
This is an interesting month for T-SQL Tuesday. The challenge is from Jason Brimhall to Sharpen Something, and learn something...
2016-08-09
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Azure: What’s the difference between SQL Database and SQL Server?
If you want to blog T-SQL Tuesday is a great way to get started. On the first Tuesday of each...
2016-08-09
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SQL UG Leaders: Reach Out to Your .NET Friends
In Baton Rouge we make no secret that our user groups and our578-personSQLSaturday combines the volunteers and attendees of our...
2016-08-09
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Great Value IT Training 9th August – Automate with PowerShell
It’s that time of the week when the Great Value IT training page gets its weekly update and this week...
2016-08-09
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TOMORROW: CNJSSUG Presents - Hilary Cotter - Performance Tuning
Wednesday, August 10, 2016, The next meeting of the Central NJ SQL Server Users Group will be on Wednesday August...
2016-08-09
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Disk Space GUI Tool – Multi Server(s) – Grid and Email Output
Monitoring server resources is critical and important job of any Administrator. Keeping things organized might improve application availability and server...
2016-08-08
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SQL Saturday Minnesota Precon – The Complete Primer to Infrastructure Tuning
I’m pleased to announce that I’m launching my next round of all-day precon training session at the upcoming SQL Saturday in Minnesota on...
2016-08-08
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Slash star, dash dash: Be obsessive about comments
I’m working on a new session* that I’ve named “T-SQL’s Hidden Support Feature”. It’s about comments. I’ll get to the...
2016-08-12 (first published: 2016-08-08)
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SQL Saturday and the Alamo
I’ll be traveling this week to SQL Saturday #550 in San Antonio. This is my first time traveling to this...
2016-08-08
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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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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