Book Review - Naked Conversations
This was one of the first books that I grabbed on my Kindle at the Business of Software Conference in...
2009-03-04
388 reads
Book Review - Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
I've been reading this for a few weeks and finally finished. Team of Rivals came up during the Presidential campaign...
2009-03-03
350 reads
A Mention on SQL Authority
I met Pinal Dave, whose blog I've followed for a year or so and just started to correspond with. A...
2009-03-03
582 reads
Branding on ESPN
I was listening to Colin Cowherd and the Herd one morning and he was talking about the Los Angeles Dodgers...
2009-03-03
595 reads
PASS Update #7
A very short update this week, the minutes of the January 2009 board meeting have been posted. Going forward we've...
2009-03-02
355 reads
Reminder: Orlando SQL Server User Group Meeting is March 11, 2009
Our next oPASS/Orlando user group meeting is coming up soon on March 11, 2009, and as usual is held at...
2009-03-02
330 reads
Cube Processing Error HY008
If you've ever had this error "OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Operation canceled; HY008." appear while processing...
2009-03-02
34,712 reads
SQL Saturday
I’ve been pretty lucky in my career to have the opportunity to attend quite a few conferences. I’ve attended one,...
2009-03-02
1,191 reads
Red Gate Software Supports SQLSaturday
If you've read my blog over the past year and a half you know that I've been heavily involved in...
2009-03-01
287 reads
An Optimised Disaster Recovery Plan thanks to SQLBackup
The continuity of operations during a disaster is as critical to running a business as just about anything. Somewhere, within...
2009-02-28
2,310 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