Join Me at PASS Summit 2016
It seems like it was just yesterday that we all said goodbye in Seattle at last year’s PASS Summit, but...
2016-06-22
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Columnstore Indexes – part 85 (“Important Batch Mode Changes in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 84 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
I wanted to write a blog post...
2016-06-21
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SQL Server Service Broker – Networking
This post is part of a series on this blog that will explore SQL Server Service Broker, a native messaging and queueing technology built into the SQL Server Database...
2016-06-21
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SQL Server Service Broker – Networking
This post is part of a series on this blog that will explore SQL Server Service Broker, a native messaging...
2016-06-28 (first published: 2016-06-21)
1,734 reads
Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 04 – Radar Chart)
In this module you will learn how to use the Radar Chart, a Power BI Custom Visual. The Radar Chart...
2016-06-28 (first published: 2016-06-21)
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LAST_VALUE–The Basics of Framing
I did some work a 3-4 years ago, learning about the Windowing functions and enjoying them so much I built...
2016-06-20
783 reads
Columnstore Indexes – part 84 (“Practical Dictionary Cases”)
Continuation from the previous 83 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
In this blog post I wanted to...
2016-06-20
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Monday Morning SQL Break – June 20, 2016
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me...
2016-06-20
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Minimizing Cloud cost
The cloud can be expensive. I had this hammered home the other day by a simple mistake. I’m currently working...
2016-06-27 (first published: 2016-06-20)
1,480 reads
The PASS Speaker Agreement
I hope when you’ve read all of this post that you’ll think that I’ve added to the discussion and not...
2016-06-24 (first published: 2016-06-20)
1,218 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