I’m moving my permissions scripts to GitHub
I’ve written very few things that I’m more proud of than my permissions scripts, sp_SrvPermissions and sp_DBPermissions. These scripts are ... Continue reading
2019-05-30
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See you at SQLSaturday Dallas!
Both my wife and I will be speaking this weekend at SQLSaturday Dallas, back-to-back in room 1.102, and both on topics perfect for entry level IT pros, job seekers,...
2019-05-30
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Untrusted FK's demo + ADS notebooks
Back in 2012 at SQLSaturday Pensacola, I did a lunch-time lightning talk on indexing, which was supposed to have a big finale on how FK's could silently help with...
2019-05-29
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Demo: Predictive Modeling using R and SQL Server Machine Learning Services
Late last year, I wrote a series of articles about Predictive Modeling using R and SQL Server Machine Learning Services. At the time, I thought MLS was an underutilized...
2019-05-28
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Demo: Predictive Modeling using R and SQL Server Machine Learning Services
Late last year, I wrote a series of articles about Predictive Modeling using R and SQL Server Machine Learning Services. At the time, I thought MLS was an underutilized...
2019-06-17 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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Leadership Part 1: Team building
One of the most challenging aspects of being a good leader is building a team that can support the initiatives you will set forth. Without a team that will...
2019-06-14 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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Container: More on Volumes
In my last post I showed how you can create a volume with your container. I then showed a few things you can with a container using a volume....
2019-06-17 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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What is a distributed transaction?
A while back I did a post defining a transaction. Basically, a transaction is a unit of work. The example ... Continue reading
2019-06-13 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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12 Ways To Rewrite SQL Queries for Better Performance
Watch this week’s video on YouTube. Thanks to you, we just crossed the 2k subscriber mark! Over the past several week’s I’ve been exploring ways to rewrite queries to improve...
2019-06-13 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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12 Ways To Rewrite SQL Queries for Better Performance
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Over the past several week's I've been exploring ways to rewrite queries to improve execution performance.
I learned a lot of these techniques over time from...
2019-05-28
43 reads
Blogs
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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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