T-SQL Tuesday #53 – Work Hard, Play Hard, Joke Hard
It is April and April Fools has only just begun. Well, or so Matt Velic (blog | twitter) would have us...
2014-04-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #53–Why So Serious?
It’s an interesting topic this month for T-SQL Tuesday #53. When I read Matt Velic’s invitation, I became intrigued. I...
2014-04-08
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Currys having apostrophe trouble
Before I start I just want to say that much of this post is mere speculation on my part and...
2014-04-08
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Question of the Week -08/04/2014
Suppose we need to find out the name of all the months in a given year (Year will be given...
2014-04-08
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Answer - Objective Question (How many Null values in an unique constraint can be inserted in SQL Server)
Question:- How many NULL value allowed in a column in which Unique constraint is defined in SQL Server?
Options:-
a) 1
b) 2
c) More...
2014-04-08
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[SQL Snacks Video] SQL Server Table Partitioning 101
I hope you’re hungry for another SQL Snack! In fact, this will be one of a series of snacks (dare...
2014-04-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #53 Why So Serious
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday which is now at a staggering number 53, can it really have been going that long?...
2014-04-08
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Curation and Performance
I’m trying out a new web site from Microsoft called Curah! that is all about curation. Curation is basically what...
2014-04-08
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Read Flat File Contents to Variable – Write Variable Value to Flat File
When working with SSIS, you’ll often find the need to read the contents of a flat file to a variable,...
2014-04-22 (first published: 2014-04-08)
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The system_health Extended Event Session
When I first started poking around in SQL Server 2012, I noticed an extended event session called “system_health” was created...
2014-04-21 (first published: 2014-04-08)
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T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
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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