You Should Never Use Backup Log Truncate_Only Except...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulhagon/369576792/I want to start this blog out with a Warning Dear Reader. The technique that I am going to describe...
2011-12-06
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Quiet Wednesday
For me the Wednesday before Thanksgiving was a quiet day at work. It was one of those ‘everyone is leaving...
2011-12-06
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The Final 15 Revealed: DBA in Space
Today, the final 15 competitors were announced at the DBA in Space website. To get into the final 15, the...
2011-12-06
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Create Drillthrough Reports
Use Actions!
Your user wants a summary report, containing sales for calendar year, for example. When the user clicks on the...
2011-12-06
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SQL Connections Fall 2011 Speaker Evaluations
In keeping with the past, I’m going to go ahead and post my evals for the two sessions I did...
2011-12-06
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DBA in Space: Behind the Scenes—Question 12
This is a continuation of my DBA in Space journal.
As this scene starts on Lunar Exhibition set, Miss Friday is...
2011-12-06
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Extended Events - inaccurate_cardinality_estimate
Extended events have been a bit of a personal “Elephant in the room” for me. I know they are there...
2011-12-06
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SQL server 2012 Startup parameters
I’m sure that I’m not the only one with nightmares about the startup parameters in older versions of SQL Server...
2011-12-06
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DATEADD and variables in SQL
To make the T-SQL function DATEADD more dynamic use variables. The example below , accepts an input parameter , in this case...
2011-12-06
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What is a DBA?
The voting for Red Gate Software’sDBA in Space Contest is to begin on Tuesday, December 6, after the final 15...
2011-12-06
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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