Self Service BI and PowerPivot
Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari have written a book called Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning that I finally...
2011-10-17
1,241 reads
Extended Events Data
I’ve been working quite a bit over the last week or so with extended events in Denali. The sheer magnitude...
2011-10-17
1,890 reads
SQL University Lesson 3 Page Compression
Lesson 2: Internal Structures, Vardecimal, & Row Compression
Welcome to Lesson 3 on Compression and welcome back Dear Reader. I want...
2011-10-17
1,102 reads
Understanding Kerberos, Part I
A get a lot of questions where I work about Kerberos and how it works for SQL Server, whether we're...
2011-10-17
4,384 reads
Simple XML exist performance enhancement
I came across this really simple best practice from BOL for the xml method exist which when used will give...
2011-10-17
1,988 reads
SafePeak version 2.1 for SQL Server Performance Acceleration Released!
Our friends at SafePeak has released a Major Update: Introducting SafePeak version 2.1 for SQL Server Performance Acceleration!
This unique caching solution offers...
2011-10-17
1,555 reads
PASS Summit 2011 recap
Recap of my first ever SQL PASS Summit – 2011:
Saturday, Oct 8 – Travel day – I flew from Richmond VA to the...
2011-10-17
1,465 reads
Setting up SSIS Auditing Part 1
Auditing in SSIS can be a real headache. In this two part series blog I am going to try to...
2011-10-16
1,737 reads
SQL PASS Summit Final Day (Sessions)
Here is a summary of the final day of sessions I attended at PASS. Vertipaq vs OLAP – Change Your Data...
2011-10-16
496 reads
SQL PASS Summit–Day 4 (BI Sessions)
Here is the summary of the session I attended while at my 4th day at the Summit. (Technically, this is...
2011-10-16
428 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Forums
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
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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