Disk Space Monitoring using SQL Server DMV
DMV : sys.dm_os_volume_stats
Being a SQL Server database administrator, you may often receive alerts or asked by Senior DBAs to check, if...
2017-01-09
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Moving to WordPress.com
For years I’ve hosted WordPress somewhere, most recently in Azure using Project Nami so that I could store all the...
2017-01-08
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Columnstore Indexes – part 95 (“Basic Query Patterns”)
Continuation from the previous 94 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
In this blog post I am continuing...
2017-01-07
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Understanding Network Latency and Impact on Availability Group Replication
When designing Availability Group systems one of the first pieces of information I ask clients for is how much transaction log their databases generate. *Roughly*, this is going to...
2017-01-06
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Understanding Network Latency and Impact on Availability Group Replication
When designing Availability Group systems one of the first pieces of information I ask clients for is how much transaction...
2017-01-17 (first published: 2017-01-06)
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Refreshing the SQL Server PowerShell Provider
Sometimes SSMS gives you stale results and there you have the Refresh button to fix that. In SQL PowerShell, the same situation can arise where the SQL Server PowerShell...
2017-01-06
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Refreshing the SQL Server PowerShell Provider
Sometimes SSMS gives you stale results and there you have the Refresh button to fix that. In SQL PowerShell, the same situation can arise where the SQL Server PowerShell...
2017-01-06
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Refreshing the SQL Server PowerShell Provider
Sometimes SSMS gives you stale results and there you have the Refresh button to fix that.
In SQL PowerShell, the same...
2017-01-06
549 reads
Easy Database Space with dbatools
One of the things that I’ve seen DBAs query for is free space in a database. In fact, this is...
2017-01-20 (first published: 2017-01-06)
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What is ETL?
In my ongoing series on ETL Best Practices, I am illustrating a collection of extract-transform-load design patterns that have proven...
2017-01-16 (first published: 2017-01-06)
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Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Forums
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building a SQL Server Fleet...
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