How Two PASS Chapters Join Forces to Run One SQLSaturday In Orlando
We’re lucky enough to have two PASS chapters here in Orlando, oPASS and MagicPASS. Both in Orlando, but about 40...
2016-04-21
558 reads
Columnstore Indexes: Finally Awesome in SQL 2016
Columnstore indexes are amazing for optimizing the performance of large rowcount queries that would otherwise look like a SCAN operation in...
2016-04-21
669 reads
Broken Left Join
Here is a simple example of a LEFT JOIN that returns the sales stats for all employees under 21.
SELECT e.Name,...
2016-04-21
579 reads
Promotions and Conflicts of Interest
I noticed my co-worker, friend, and PASS board member, Grant Fritchey, posted a note on members of the PASS Board...
2016-04-21
559 reads
Microsoft’s Commitment to Azure
For several years, many of us who were involved with working in Azure from the early days, were concerned that...
2016-04-21
534 reads
Loading Data into Clustered Columnstore Index with SSIS
I’m using a clustered columnstore index (CCI) on one of my fact tables at a client. The row size is...
2016-04-21
1,846 reads
Speaking at 24 Hours of PASS – The Evolution of Data Platform
As announced a couple of hours ago, a new edition of the famous online webinars 24 Hours of PASS will...
2016-04-21
360 reads
JSON in SQL Server 2016 – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Microsoft introduced support for JSON data in SQL Server 2016 and in Azure SQL Database. I was excited to see...
2016-04-20
724 reads
A Speaking Sabbatical
Lately I’ve been thinking about taking a break from doing presentations. Not sure what triggered it – maybe just a sense...
2016-04-20
628 reads
Payment and the Board
If you read the March PASS Board meeting minutes, you saw that there was a discussion around board members and...
2016-04-20
501 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...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
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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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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