Project Phoenix
Project PhoenixSometime people need a hand up – an opportunity to rise from the ashes. Over the last couple of years...
2010-10-09
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What are Physical Sockets, Physical Cores, and Logical Cores and Why Does it matter?
I witnessed a confused conversation on Twitter today where someone was talking about how he uses the terms sockets and...
2010-10-09
12,730 reads
Issues With Calculating Current Age Using DateDiff (Rounding?)
Recently I inherited a set of SSIS packages that did a pretty simple calculation for age.It used the following expression,...
2010-10-09
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SSRS - Join Function
Often when designing a Reporting Services with parameters you
may be required to display those parameter values on your report.This is...
2010-10-08
4,203 reads
SQL Server Memory Related Queries
What is using all of my memory in SQL Server? If you ever believe that you are seeing signs of...
2010-10-08
2,762 reads
New Hotness: sys.objects and sys.schemas
Last month we talked about the old and busted syscomments- and the new hotness that is sys.sql_modules – for pulling code out of...
2010-10-08
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of October 11, 2010
Monday
SQL Lunch - SSIS Design Patterns 1c: Variables, Events, and Automated Custom Logging Patterns - Andy Leonard
Tuesday
Idera - Accelerating Answers with Analysis Services...
2010-10-08
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Planning to Fail
Great title for a post, isn’t it? Seems foolish, lazy, or worse to plan for failure, right? Yet, in the...
2010-10-08
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Career Warfare - Book Review
I picked up Career Warfare on the recommendation of a friend that had seen the Modern Resume presentation. I grabbed...
2010-10-08
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SQL Lunch #32: SSIS Design Patterns, with Andy Leonard
Don't miss SQL Server MVP Andy Leonard on the SQL Lunch, Monday, October 11th.
#32-SSIS Design Patterns 1c: Variables, Events, and...
2010-10-08
802 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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building a SQL Server Fleet...
Smart AI Agents and Data Security
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Smart AI Agents and Data...
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