Advice I Like: Training Employees
Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well enough that they never want to. – from Excellent Advice for Living This one is...
2025-10-24
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Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well enough that they never want to. – from Excellent Advice for Living This one is...
2025-10-24
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I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s for help. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. The Problem...
2025-11-07 (first published: 2025-10-22)
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It’s Not Just Backup / Restore At some point every company faces it: the SQL Server that’s been quietly running for years is due for retirement. Maybe the hardware...
2025-10-22
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In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs), DBAs sometimes face a frustrating scenario: replication stalls when a secondary replica or subscriber is...
2025-11-07 (first published: 2025-10-21)
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Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server in 2025 and your sa login is still usable, you’re giving attackers a giant, blinking...
2025-11-10 (first published: 2025-10-21)
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Change is inevitable. What separates thriving organizations from those that falter is not the scale of disruption but how leaders respond to it. In times of shifting technologies, evolving...
2025-11-12 (first published: 2025-10-20)
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It’s been a good year for me. With my sabbatical, I felt like I’ve gotten away from work quite a bit this year. I’ve had a few vacations around...
2025-10-20
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In less than one month, I will be speaking not once but twice at PASS Data Community Summit 2025.
Thursday, November 20th at 1 PM I will be in the...
2025-10-20
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Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton of fun writing these, and I hope you’re enjoying the ride through SQL Server’s haunted...
2025-11-03 (first published: 2025-10-17)
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This was one of the original values: The facing page has this text: No matter how smart you are, or how good you are at narrowly defined tasks, there...
2025-10-17
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By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
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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') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers