Notes on Designing an After Hours Event for the PASS Summit
This year we’re trying out two ideas on Thursday night, a networking dinner (of a sort) and game night. I...
2016-10-27 (first published: 2016-10-20)
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Syncing QA data with Production
Applies to: xSQL Data Compare v7.0.0 and higher
WARNING: this article focuses on the data transfer / synchronization task and does not address operation security issues and sensitive data scrubbing /...
2016-10-20
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Syncing QA data with Production
Applies to: xSQL Data Compare v7.0.0 - v9.0.0
Nowadays, Quality Assurance (QA) is a very important part of the development process for any...
2016-10-20
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Creating a Logon Trigger–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-10-20
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PASS Summit 2016: Dinner, Dinner, Game
Part of making a week long trip to a big event like the PASS Summit successful is finding something to...
2016-10-20
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SQL Saturday Washington DC Preconference Training Session
I am pleased to announce that we are launching our next round of all-day precon training session at the upcoming SQL Saturday in Washington...
2016-10-20
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Making the Most of PASS Summit and Similar Events
Events like the PASS Summit aren’t just about education. They are a chance to meet new people, get some distance from...
2016-10-20
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Who owns your availability groups?
Question: Who owns your availability groups?
The person who creates the AG becomes the owner by default. Did you know that...
2016-10-20
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Machine Learning – What is It Good For?
Machine Learning is a very powerful technology used in the field of predictive analytics. As far as I see it,...
2016-10-20
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Why I don’t love SELECT INTO
Long ago there were locking / blocking problems with the SELECT INTO statement. That’s not the case anymore and for AdHoc...
2016-10-20
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Blogs
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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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