Report Portal in SSRS 2016
SQL Server Reporting Services benefits from a major update in SQL Server 2016, which is obvious from the first interaction...
2016-12-20
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SQL Server and Hyper-threading
This post is about the CPU utilisation in the Standard, Web and Express editions of SQL Server because there is limitation...
2016-12-20
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Last Restore of a Database – Back to Basics
In this article I explore the basics around how to determine when a database was last restored.
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Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a...
2016-12-20
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Replay your workload through the Query Store Replay script!
One of the great features of the Query Store is that it stores query execution plans and runtime performance on-disk...
2016-12-19
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New whitepaper with ScaleArc
I’m pleased to announce a new collaborative whitepaper with ScaleArc entitled “Improving uptime and performance of legacy apps on Microsoft...
2016-12-19
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PowerShell : Monitoring and Notification – Disk Space Alerts
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Monitoring disk space utilization of server(s) is the critical and important job for...
2016-12-19
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PASS Board: Year-End Wrap-Up
This month concludes my second full year on the PASS Board of Directors and my first full year on the...
2016-12-19
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Announcing Tuga IT 2017
Its the right time & the right moment of the year to announce the 2nd edition of the ultimate portuguese IT...
2016-12-19
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:OUT :OUT darn results!
Years ago I worked for a company that had a rather cool way of handling requests. When we ran the...
2016-12-19
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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
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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