Back to Work
After surgery Fri am, I’ve been mostly taking it easy, but now it’s back to work. Got kids to school...
2014-04-29
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Speaking At the Pinellas SQL Group on August 18, 2014
I’ve committed to presenting but haven’t decided on the presentation yet. It will probably be a remote presentation because it’s...
2014-04-29
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Installing and Configuring Active Directory in Window Server 2012
Hello Friends,
Sometimes life is so uneasy that you didn’t get time for the work which you like the most. Now...
2014-04-29
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SQL Server Quickie #13 – Hash Join Operator
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-04-29
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What is a Non-Clustered Columnstore Index?
First introduced in SQL Server 2012, the Columnstore index is a new in-memory feature that allows for the creation of...
2014-04-29
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Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others
Here are the slides and links to awesome resources for my presentation, “Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others”
If you...
2014-04-29
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PowerShell-Input-Validation Scripts
Input values are validated using various mechanisms. let’s start by examining how you would validate input parameters in Windows PowerShell...
2014-04-28
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PowerShell-Input-Validation Scripts
Input values are validated using various mechanisms. let’s start by examining how you would validate input parameters in Windows PowerShell...
2014-04-28
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Sorkin On Writing
I saw this write up about Aaron Sorkin and the writing on Newsroom just after posting Blogging-Write More and found...
2014-04-28
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #81
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-04-28
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Blogs
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
Forums
Stored Procedures for Server-Level Object and Column Search
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Databricks Genie Spaces for SQL Analysts: Natural Language Querying Without Leaving Your Data Platform
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The Costs of Multiple Platforms
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
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') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers