Working with “special” names
What do you do when you need to use a special character in a name? Well, I guess I should...
2015-10-22 (first published: 2015-10-19)
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First Day as DBA - Now What?
It's your first day at Corp of
America as DBA. The old DBA left. The sysadmins are managing the SQL Servers.
And...
2015-10-23 (first published: 2015-10-19)
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Columnstore Indexes – part 69 (“Operational Analytics – Disk Based”)
Continuation from the previous 68 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blogpost is dedicated to one of...
2015-10-18
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The Whirlwind That Is October – Part 2
October has been such a whirlwind of PASS activity for me. Two SQL Saturdays and the PASS Summit. This post...
2015-10-18
383 reads
Step by Step SSIS Multicast Transformation TIP #121
Dear Friends,
This is another post in the series of step by step SSIS ,Zero to hero series. In this post...
2015-10-18
2,810 reads
Step by Step SSIS–Derived Column Transformation TIP # 120
Dear Friends,
In the series of Step by Step SSIS , Zero to Hero in SSIS this is another post in which...
2015-10-22 (first published: 2015-10-18)
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SQL Saturday #437–Boston BI Edition 2015–You Can Still Analyze Data with T-SQL
Thanks for attending my session on analyzing data with TSQL. I hope you learned something you can take back and...
2015-10-17
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Step by Step SSIS–Union ALL tip # 119
Dear All,
In the series of zero to hero SSIS series this is one of the simplest transformation control which...
2015-10-17
1,129 reads
Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server, part 1: The Simplest Methods
By Steve Bolton
…………In the last series of mistutorials I published in this amateur SQL Server blog, the outlier detection methods...
2015-10-21 (first published: 2015-10-17)
2,524 reads
A New Achievement
To celebrate a recent achievement, I have decided to create a whole new section to my blog that will be...
2015-10-17
522 reads
Blogs
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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Force join by longest possible choice
Title pretty much says it. I want to join to a table that has...
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
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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