A Script A Day - Day 11 - User Permissions By Database
Today's script will return you permissions granted to a user for every online database. The script uses EXECUTE AS so...
2012-02-20
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Sorry...
I've been offline for a week to take some annual leave and recharge my batteries. To make up for the...
2012-02-20
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Will You Sponsor the #SQLPlunge?
At the beginning of next month, a few hearty souls have decided that they’d like to do a little to...
2012-02-20
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SQL Rally: Don't Vote for my Sessions
So I found out on Friday that I am going to be a speaker at the Dallas SQL Rally, which...
2012-02-20
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Selected to Speak at SQLRally 2012
I was excited to receive the email on Friday that I’d been selected to present at SQLRally #2 in Dallas...
2012-02-20
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SQL Rally: Don’t Vote for My Sessions
So I found out on Friday that I am going to be a speaker at the Dallas SQL Rally, which...
2012-02-20
473 reads
SQL Server – Powershell Active Directory search
Working with Powershell and Active Directory simplifies some complex tasks for the DBA.
Active Directory is LDAP compliant. This means the...
2012-02-20
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Cartesian/Cross Join
I was once asked in a job interview if I knew what a Cartesian/Cross Join was.
A more interesting question is:...
2012-02-19
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SQL Server Isolation Levels By Example
Isolation levels in SQL Server control the way locking works between transactions.
SQL Server 2008 supports the following isolation levels
Read Uncommitted...
2012-02-18
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SQLMidlands & SQLLunch
Many thanks to all those that turned out to see my presentation on Thursday (16th of Feb) of “Cursors are...
2012-02-18
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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
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Let's Talk Certifications
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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
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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