Reblog: April 11 to April 17
Photo credit – Travis
Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...
2014-04-18
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Creating Power Map Reporting Solutions Recording and Q&A
I hope you were able to attend my free webinar on Creating Power Map Reporting Solutions on April 17 2014. If you...
2014-04-18
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for April 2014
I made some small improvements to a few of the queries this month. I plan to add several more SQL...
2014-04-28 (first published: 2014-04-18)
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Speaking at SQL Bits XII
I’m heading back to SQL Bits for the third time and I’m excited to be going again. I think that...
2014-04-18
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Upcoming Presentations in May
Next month, I’ll be making a couple of stops at SQL Saturday events in the south. On May 3, I’ll...
2014-04-18
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Friday Followup For April 18, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-04-18
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MDS: A Database Error Has Occurred
I recently came across the following error message when I tried to look at the batches in the Integration Management...
2014-04-18
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Bringing Power BI Q&A to your Organization Recording and Q&A
I hope you were able to attend my free webinar on Bringing Power BI Q&A to your Organization on April 15...
2014-04-17
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What is the Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS)?
Analytics Platform System (APS) is simply a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW). It is not really a new...
2014-04-17
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Why does my Failover Cluster Instance Keep Failing Back and Forth?
A few months ago I was paged by a client because their SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) was experiencing...
2014-04-25 (first published: 2014-04-17)
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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...
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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