Do You Support the Ancient Ones?
Do You Support the Ancient Ones?
Are you still supporting SQL Server 2000? How about 7.0 or 6.5?
Officially, Microsoft support has...
2009-03-29
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Tweet Your Job Away
A great example of how to “Tweet” poorly. This guy got fired before he started work.
Twitter is a series...
2009-03-27
1,764 reads
Featured Blog - Brian Kelley
My friend Brian writes Databases, Infrastructure, and Security and like me, he writes about an eclectic mix that goes beyond...
2009-03-26
1,451 reads
Android v Windows Mobile
I’ve had a number of cell phones in my life, probably more than many people. Typically I’ve just grabbed a...
2009-03-26
3,966 reads
Minimalist Design
I'm been in tactical mode lately, building an advertising management system for one of our projects. Actually it's v2, the...
2009-03-25
1,613 reads
Some Common Date Routines
I'm sure that these routines are available in a variety of locations, this just adds one more place that people...
2009-03-25
39,866 reads
Gone Dark
This afternoon was quite interesting around the office. A strong thunderstorm moved through the area, a common occurrence in Texas...
2009-03-25
1,408 reads
How to Deal with the Difficult Forum User
It has happened to us all at one time or another. We are trying to help someone on an online...
2009-03-25
1,565 reads
Launch Replication Monitor Without SSMS
I manage a lot of replication publications\subscriptions and when I get a latency or agent failure alert it always bugs...
2009-03-25
863 reads
What a fortnight I had
This has been one of the most stressful fortnight in this company. I did not feel this stressed when our...
2009-03-25
493 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...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Let's Talk Certifications, which is...
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building a SQL Server Fleet...
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