Deploying a Windows Data Science Virtual Machine to Azure with PowerShell easily
This weekend (10 December 2016), I went to Slovenia for a SQL Saturday. As always, it was an amazing event...
2016-12-18
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SSIS Execution Status Lookup
The SSIS catalog comes packaged with a rich set of built-in reports that give those monitoring Integration Services a window...
2016-12-17
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Saturday Reading 2016-12-17
It was my office Xmas party last night so whilst recovering on my settee, I’ll be reading:-
The Most Important Role...
2016-12-17
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Why I am called BlobEater
It’s coming towards the holiday season for me and I thought that I would wind-down a little with a non-technical...
2016-12-17
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Power BI on-Premises Production Targeted for Mid 2017
NEWS FLASH: Power BI reports can be deployed to SQL Server Reporting Services web portal. The production-ready release is targeted...
2016-12-16
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Unzip Files with SSIS
In my last post I shared how to build a package in SSIS to perform simple file archive (zip) operations....
2016-12-16
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Locking Resources in Azure
I look at locking resources within Azure as a safety mechanism where it can protect users from accidental deletion, it...
2016-12-16
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Query Store Database Dashboard v1.3 released!
Next to releasing a new version of sp_WhatsupQueryStore, I just released the 1.3 version of the Query Store Database Dashboard!
Release...
2016-12-15
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Connecting to a Specific Port–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-12-15
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Live #SQLintheCity–Behind the Scenes
Here’s a shot from our engineer, behind the scenes of my live talk today.
Tom Austin and @way0utwest live at #sqlinthecity...
2016-12-15
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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