Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing
Sigh… I just spent almost a full work day trying to come up with, what turned out to be a...
2010-10-18
3,168 reads
SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference This Week
Conference Time! The SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference is coming up this week. On October 20-22, you can attend a...
2010-10-18
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What I Did This Weekend
About two weeks ago my good friend and former colleague Justin Hostettler-Davie -JHD (Blog | Twitter) asked me via my wife...
2010-10-18
780 reads
SQLSaturday #59 - Speaker Interview #5 with Karen Lopez
SQLSaturday #59 - Speaker Interview #5 with Karen Lopez, (aka datachick)
Let’s trek up North to the great city of Toronto, Canada,...
2010-10-18
1,935 reads
Copyright
This is actually amazing. A talk on what YouTube does with copyright and how they view it, from TED. It’s...
2010-10-18
1,127 reads
Give Back and Get Free Tools to Do So
SQL Server MVP Arnie Rowland (blog | twitter) has been running a project, Project Phoenix, to benefit unemployed/underemployed developers who are striving to do...
2010-10-17
576 reads
When Times are Tough, Do You Rise to the Occasion?
This is a reprint of my editorial in Database Weekly.
Scenario One: The new third-party application, purchased by your company without...
2010-10-17
395 reads
When was SQL Server Restarted?
While doing some performance testing recently and utilizing some of the DMV’s I figured, I better find out when the...
2010-10-16
1,554 reads
Return Indexes for a Particular Table using TSQL
I posted a blog recently about returning a listing of all indexes for database, which is good if you want...
2010-10-16
1,165 reads
Scary DBA Takes Over the World
Or, at least gets translated into Russian.
I realize I’m effectively a 10 year old, but, come on, HOW COOL IS...
2010-10-15
607 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