The Price of Convenience is Non-Ownership and Loss of Privacy.
This is as far as I ever plan to stray from writing purely technical posts. It just strikes so close...
2009-07-19
714 reads
SQL Saturday Dallas
We are in the early stages of planning a SQL Saturday event in the Dallas area for January or February...
2009-07-19
1,078 reads
A Small Step - Car Update
Ford is adding Eco-Boost to a number of vehicles. A combination of a turbo and fuel injection technology that can...
2009-07-17
843 reads
Book Review: Fault Line
I finished reading Fault Line by Barry Eisler ($16.50 @ Amazon) a few weeks ago. I’ve been a fan for a...
2009-07-17
603 reads
Acronis True Image 2009 - Cloning a Disk
With my hard drive failing in the laptop recently, I scrambled to do something. I was on the road, and...
2009-07-17
2,665 reads
File/Folder/Share Permissions for DBAs and Database Developers
Every so often I run into a fellow DBA or database developer who isn't crystal clear on how file/folder and...
2009-07-16
6,010 reads
One of these keys is just like the other
I've been tech editing Michael Cole's new book on Encryption in SQL Server, which is due out in August or...
2009-07-16
352 reads
Upgrade Your Laptop to Solid State Drive
Saw an announcement in Eweek about this, so went looking and found this review of the Imation SSD Upgrade Kit....
2009-07-15
569 reads
Help Me Name My New Blog
I am in the process of creating a new blog, but I am having difficulty coming up with a good...
2009-07-15
1,207 reads
Rant: Updating Application Databases the Right Way
Recently, a fellow DBA showed me a set of documentation on a commercially available product. This is a product people...
2009-07-15
1,789 reads
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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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RegEx Functions IV
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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