T-SQL Tuesday 184 - Mentorship
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Deborah Melkin
(blog) asks us to talk about our relationship with mentoring and...
2025-03-11
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March 2025 SQL Challenge: Test Your Skills with Advanced SQL Scenarios
If you’re an experienced SQL user eager to sharpen your expertise with real-world challenges, the March SQL Practice is the perfect opportunity. This month’s challenge is designed for advanced...
2025-03-11
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SQL Saturday Atlanta BI Recap
https://sqlsaturday.com/2025-03-08-sqlsaturday1102/#schedule SQL Saturday Atlanta BI is one of my favorite SQL Saturdays of the year. This year was especially sweet to see a lot of the SML (Saturday Morning...
2025-03-10
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Answering Questions On Dropped Columns
Howdy folks! Long time no write.
In this post, I will be answering a couple of questions from the previous posts about dropping columns.
A quick refresh
If you haven’t read the...
2025-03-10
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Mistakes IT Shops Without a DBA Make
We get it. There’s no budget for a DBA on staff, or even a contract support firm like Dallas DBAs. You are not alone! There are thousands of firms...
2025-03-19 (first published: 2025-03-07)
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A New Word: Waldosia
waldosia– n. a condition in which you keep scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, as if your...
2025-03-07
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Deploy at Low Priority
Learn how to deploy schema changes in an always-online SQL Server environment without a maintenance window. This utility reduces blocking and improves deployment success.
The problem
I attempted to deploy a...
2025-03-19 (first published: 2025-03-07)
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A Couple Quick GENERATE_SERIES Tests
I had someone reach out about generate_series() recently, saying they hadn’t realized this was a new feature in SQL Server 2022. They were wondering if it was better than...
2025-03-17 (first published: 2025-03-05)
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How I passed the DP-700 Exam
I recently took and passed the DP-700 exam, which is required for the Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate certification. It’s the second Fabric certification, and it focuses more...
2025-03-17 (first published: 2025-03-05)
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Which approach to take: Build it, buy it, cloud it?
As a Consultant, I would typically answer with – it depends! Then a typical conversation starts with an expression of personal preferences based on experience, the organization’s history, and...
2025-03-14 (first published: 2025-03-05)
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PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
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T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
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The Costs of Multiple Platforms
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
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