Visual Studio Live!–Washington DC–Save with me
I’m going to be speaking this fall at Visual Studio Live, Washington D.C. edition on Oct 3-6. This is my...
2016-08-05
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2016-08-05
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Dropping Masking from a Column–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-08-09 (first published: 2016-08-04)
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SQL Server 2016 Cumulative Update 1
On July 25th Microsoft released the first cumulative update (#1) for SQL Server 2016. This is a good reason to...
2016-08-04
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AlwaysON move database without breaking HADR
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This post is going to show the database movement from one drive to another drive, without...
2016-08-08 (first published: 2016-08-03)
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Dreaming of SQL Saturday
I’m truly stunned at the responses I received to my post asking how far people have traveled for a SQL...
2016-08-12 (first published: 2016-08-03)
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What’s the difference between LEFT and RIGHT OUTER JOINs?
A DBA walked into a bar, saw a couple of tables, and asked “Can I JOIN you?”
There are several different...
2016-08-03
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Minimizing SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB Performance Impacts
Overview
SQL Server is the most popular relational database management system, which is used by many organizations to maintain their data....
2016-08-03
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SQL Server 2016 – Perform Volume Maintenance
One of the server settings that I always enable when configuring a new instance of SQL is database instant file...
2016-08-03
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Great Value IT Training early August Update
Its that time of the week when get the latest Learning Tree courses that have been available for £750 plus...
2016-08-03
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Blogs
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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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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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