SSIS Data Flow "Sequence Containers" are Here!
Wooo!OK - maybe too much of a celebration... and I do have meatier topics in the article pipeline. However, I just stumbled across a feature in SSIS that I...
2016-12-01
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Azure pricing
Not a technical post today (not that I am technical) but still an important one. I have been using Azure...
2016-12-01
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CPU Spikes Caused by Periodic Scheduled Jobs
In this article I’ll show you how to eliminate periodic spikes in the CPU that are caused by the jobs...
2016-12-01
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SSIS Data Flow "Sequence Containers" are Here!
Wooo!
OK - maybe too much of a celebration... and I do have meatier topics in the article pipeline. However, I just...
2016-12-08 (first published: 2016-12-01)
1,574 reads
SQL Server – Playing With Trace Flags
Trace flags are used to temporarily set specific server characteristics or to switch off a particular behavior. They are usually...
2016-12-01
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MSDB log file grown large – SLEEP_MSDBSTARTUP waittype
Issue: MSDB database log file is getting full very rapidly and became very huge. Currently, T-Log file is of 5GB...
2016-11-30
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What’s the little popup window in #SQLPrompt?
Awhile back I was working in SSMS and saw this window.
It threw me off since I was trying to write...
2016-12-16 (first published: 2016-11-30)
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This Week in Data – Episode 14 (Hacking Your Professional Development)
Welcome back to another episode of This Week In Data! If you missed our previous episodes, you can watch them...
2016-11-30
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Query Tuning 101: Debugging a procedure
I was recently asked to help tune a stored procedure that has been historically taking between 55 and 60 seconds...
2016-12-15 (first published: 2016-11-30)
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Reflecting on Ten Years of SQLSaturday
It’s hard to believe it’s been more than 10 years since we started the planning for the first event in...
2016-12-16 (first published: 2016-11-30)
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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