A Script A Day - Day 13 - Chris' Top Tip - Batches
Today’s post is pretty cool. So you have been reading up about something on the World Wide Web or you...
2012-02-21
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How to Upgrade SQL Server 2000 Instance to SQL Server 2005
Introduction
The purpose of this tutorial is to lay out the general guidelines for planning a SQL Server 2005 upgrade. As...
2012-02-21
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What's New is SSIS 2012? - Find out with Andy Leonard at the NJ SQL User Group - tonight!
As us SQL professional folks know, since the advent of SQL Server Integration Services, affectionately known as SSIS, it has...
2012-02-21
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PASS Virtual Chapter: SSIS Enhanced Threading Framework
I'll be giving a presentation tomorrow, Tuesday 2/21/2012 at 12PM EST on my Enhanced Threading Framework design. Here is the...
2012-02-21
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Essential Trace Flags for Recovery & Debugging
The following trace flags are essential for a variety of recovery scenarios. The use of trace flags allow the DBA...
2012-02-20
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SSRS – Creating a Reporting Services Web Farm
Reporting Services performance problems can often be narrowed down to report design or resource constraints and sometimes a combination of...
2012-02-20
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): PowerPivot
Version 2 of PowerPivot (download) is being made available with SQL Server 2012. There are many new features, and my top 5 are:
Diagram...
2012-02-20
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A Script A Day - Day 12 - Granting Role Membership to All Principals
Today's script will grant membership in the db_owner fixed database role in all online read/writable user databases to all principals not...
2012-02-20
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Speaking at PASS DBA Virtual Chapter
I will be speaking for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter on February 22nd, 2012. I will be delivering my presentation on...
2012-02-20
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Reconciling SPNs
As part of troubleshooting Kerberos authentication for SQL Server I had to verify SPNs so I thought I’d blog about...
2012-02-20
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Blogs
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Let's Talk Certifications, which is...
Force join by longest possible choice
Title pretty much says it. I want to join to a table that has...
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building a SQL Server Fleet...
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