Netbooks - Hands On Review
The other day I was wandering around Best Buy and noticed that they had a few netbooks for sale. I...
2009-03-09
1,355 reads
Book Review: Big Red - Voyage of a Trident Submarine
I've grown up reading Tom Clancy and probably most of you have at least seen Red October, so this book...
2009-03-08
434 reads
Building Reports, 2.0 Style
I’m getting my first taste of the new SQL Report Builder 2.0, and so far I’m enjoying the upgrade. Report...
2009-03-08
2,397 reads
MVP Summit 2009 -A Most Excellent Adventure
For many of us, one of the high points of being an MVP is attending the annual MVP Summit hosted...
2009-03-07
417 reads
Database Mirroring FAQ: Why is my mirror database in a restoring state?
Question: Why is my mirror database in a restoring state?
This question was asked on a technical discussion group. This is...
2009-03-06
39,935 reads
I’m a PC and I’m an MVP!
At the recent MVP conference I attended, Microsoft filmed a promotion for their ad campaign. They had the entire MVP...
2009-03-06
658 reads
Voice Your Opinion on Topics to be Included at the 2009 PASS Summit
If you are thinking about, or planning to attend the 2009 PASS Community Summit, here is your opportunity to tell...
2009-03-06
454 reads
CONTROL SERVER vs. sysadmin membership
In a previous blog post on Detecting When a Login Has Implicit Access to a Database, I mentioned that having...
2009-03-06
13,203 reads
Adobe Flash Player Update Available
There is an Adobe Flash Player available to address a security issue. The bulletin shows as being released February 24,...
2009-03-06
1,325 reads
Three Operating System (Windows) patches due on Tuesday
Microsoft's advance security bulletin has come out and it looks like they are planning on releasing 3 security bulletins on...
2009-03-06
693 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