Give Me a Coconut and Six Months
Tim Benninghof tagged me with the question. "So You’re On A Deserted Island With WiFi and you’re still on the...
2009-06-13
471 reads
Mentors and Perspective
We had my organization's semi-annual combined IT and financial meeting this morning. At the end of these meetings awards and...
2009-06-12
677 reads
Answers to Advanced SSIS Interview Questions
Last week I wrote a set of Advanced SSIS Interview Questions. Here are the answers I came up for these. ...
2009-06-12
53,494 reads
Passive Influence
I study karate on a regular basis, and over the years I've practiced a number of different martial arts, most...
2009-06-12
688 reads
Call for Speakers and Registration for SQLSaturday #17 in Baton Rouge on August 1, 2009
Patrick Leblanc is the event lead for SQLSaturday #17 coming up soon on August 1st. Patrick emailed me just a...
2009-06-11
549 reads
Book Review: American Promethius: The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer
I picked up a copy of this from the local library after reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Oppenheimer...
2009-06-11
611 reads
Book Review: First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong ($14 @ Amazon) was a good book, enjoyed reading it. Some interesting tidbits...
2009-06-11
361 reads
Tagged: The Desert Island Scenario
I was tagged by Scary DBA and recent MVP awardee Grant Fritchey with the latest viral question:
“So You’re On A...
2009-06-11
1,355 reads
Planning for a Disaster
Early last week, my church suffered a lightning strike that did quite a bit of damage (relatively speaking) to computer and...
2009-06-11
838 reads
Why You'll Want to Create Your Temp Tables Before Populating them
The point of this post is to cleary explain how the combination of the use of data definition language for your temporary...
2009-06-11
1,129 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