Meme Monday - All in the #SQLFamily
Yes, it's Monday again, and not only that - it's another edition of Meme Monday (the first of 2012), started by...
2012-01-09
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What I Will Do For You in 2012
Many of you have first hand experience of our phenomenal sql community (affectionately labelled the #sqlfamily).
Your first encounter with it...
2012-01-09
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SQL Server-Table Variable
Table variable:- SQL Server provides an variable known as table variable which is used to store data in a similar way as we...
2012-01-07
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SQL Server - Local temporary table
Local temporary table:- Local temporary table is created in the tempdb and it is visible to the current user's session...
2012-01-07
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SQL Server - Global temporary tables
Global temporary table:- Global temporary table is created in the tempdb and it is visible to all other sessions as well. Global...
2012-01-07
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[BUG] Inserts to tables with an index view can fail
Unfortunately some of the more troubling bugs can be very hard to reproduce succinctly. Here is one that has been...
2012-01-06
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What’s Wrong with this Picture: A Database Misconfiguration Well Demonstrated
Recently, I was doing some testing/playing around on a particular database on my home test servers. After I was done,...
2012-01-06
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Creating Strong Passwords
I was writing a presentation recently on encryption and one of the important things to show in the presentation is...
2012-01-06
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Normalizing Your Database
If you’ve been working with databases for any length of time, you have heard the term normalization.
Normalization is the process...
2012-01-11 (first published: 2012-01-06)
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Re-blog – December 30 – January 5
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2012-01-06
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Blogs
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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Smart AI Agents and Data Security
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RegEx Functions IV
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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