What is a community advisory board anyway?
For those of us who have been involved in the Microsoft Data Platform community for a few years, the events of the last few months have been dramatic, culminating...
2021-03-24
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Daily Coping 24 Mar 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-03-24
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Publish and Update WordPress Posts Directly From Ulysses
Ulysses integrates with WordPress to enable publishing and editing to WordPress from within the app.
2021-03-24
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Moving Into Consulting 101 - Part 3 - The Hours of a Consultant
This is part three in a five part series this week, Moving into Consulting 101.
Today's topics talk about why you were hired. How is your work likely to be quantified,...
2021-04-02 (first published: 2021-03-24)
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Power BI Monthly Digest – March 2021
In this month’s Power BI Digest Matt and I will again guide you through some of the latest and greatest Power BI updates this month.
2021-04-01 (first published: 2021-03-24)
432 reads
The Data Saturday Logo Contest
I’ve been helping with the Data Saturdays project, in addition to trying to get SQL Saturday to grow again. Data Saturdays is looking for a logo, as the site...
2021-03-23
35 reads
Daily Coping 23 Mar 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-03-23
23 reads
Data Saturdays Logo Contest
Lots of exciting things are happening with Data Saturdays and we want you, the #SQLFamily, involved. Last week, Rob Sewell (B|T) announced the new automation and setup process for...
2021-03-23
46 reads
Moving Into Consulting 101 - Part 2 - The Tact of a Consultant
This is part two in a five part series this week, Moving into Consulting 101.
Today's consulting topic is friendly advice on how to handle yourself in front of clients,...
2021-03-31 (first published: 2021-03-23)
961 reads
How to add a Constant value to Dynamic JSON array in Azure Data Factory
(2021-Mar-22) I had an interesting Azure Data Factory (ADF) case last week while pulling a list of files from an Azure Storage account with the help of [Get Metadata] activity....
2021-03-31 (first published: 2021-03-23)
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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...
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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