Speaking at SQLSaturday Sacramento!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Sacramento on July 23th 2016! This will be my third SQLSaturday event this year and I’m really excited...
2016-07-15
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Speaking at SQLSaturday Sacramento!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Sacramento on July 23th 2016! This will be my...
2016-07-15
433 reads
Azure SQL Database waits you should be aware of…
I’ve been using Microsoft’s cloud database for some time now. I’ve had a few customers with various performance problems and...
2016-07-15
2,217 reads
Resolving PolyBase Installation Errors in SQL Server 2016
One of the exciting new features you may want to explore in SQL Server 2016 is PolyBase. However, as I...
2016-07-15
1,434 reads
SQL vs NoSQL
Introduction
Despite the traditional relational DB world, there’s also a trend for NoSQL. The NoSQL databases that enable storing unstructured and...
2016-07-15
4,652 reads
GIT Learning Resources
I’ve spent most of my career using VSS and TFS, mainly because that’s what was being used. Better any source...
2016-07-15
442 reads
TGI Friday (Live Blog Day 4)
Its been long but productive week at Tree Tech
This week I’m teaching Learning Tree’s course 2108 SQL Server Database Administration in the...
2016-07-15
417 reads
SQLServerZest is now DataGinger!
We are happy to announce the birth of DataGinger. Starting today we officially re-branded ourselves as DataGinger.com (previously SQLServerZest.com). The...
2016-07-15
415 reads
Introduction to Power BI Desktop – Recording Now Available
Thank you to everyone that attended this past Tuesday’s webinar hosted by Pragmatic Works called Introduction to Power BI Desktop....
2016-07-15
620 reads
Descriptive Statistics with SQL and R – 1
I started my re-discovery of statistics with an introduction here. This second post is about descriptive statistics – very basic, simple...
2016-07-14
1,120 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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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