Speaking at SQLSaturday Pensacola
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQLSaturday Pensacola on June 4th 2016! This will be my second SQLSaturday...
2016-04-23
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SQLSaturday Atlanta #521 May 19th & 20th 2016
SQLSaturday events are a pleasure to be a part of whether it involves speaking or volunteering. Volunteering definitely takes more...
2016-04-23
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Colorblind Awareness and Power BI KPIs
Update: The ability to change the color of a KPI was delivered in August 2016!
Color blindness, or color vision deficiency (CVD)...
2016-04-23
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Upcoming Webinars
Next week I am participating in two exciting webinars that I want to share with you!
Improve App Uptime: Tips from MVP...
2016-04-22
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Changing the sa Password with SQLCMD
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-05-04 (first published: 2016-04-22)
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Azure SQL Database pricing
Pricing Azure SQL database is difficult because various database service tier options such as database transaction units (DTU’s), max database size,...
2016-04-22
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Where Is My Primary Replica Again?
We have many clients with multi-node Availability Groups - that is, AGs with more than two replicas. One of the problems...
2016-05-03 (first published: 2016-04-22)
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Power BI Service error: “This visual has unrecognized fields”
Recently I stumbled across a quite annoying error in the Power BI service. I uploaded two working reports from Power...
2016-05-03 (first published: 2016-04-22)
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Setting up powershell remote sessions
Hey guys, differing from usual this is a quick post on setting up powershell remote sessions. I know you can...
2016-05-02 (first published: 2016-04-22)
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How Two PASS Chapters Join Forces to Run One SQLSaturday In Orlando
We’re lucky enough to have two PASS chapters here in Orlando, oPASS and MagicPASS. Both in Orlando, but about 40...
2016-04-21
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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