Monitor availability groups and availability replicas status information using T-SQL
Just a quick blog post to share a query, which I wrote to monitor availability groups and replicas and the...
2014-01-20
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Power BI Contest Entry Voting
You’ve watched my video (hopefully) now vote for it! In a previous post I wrote about my Power BI contest...
2014-01-20
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Counting the Existing, and Missing, Rows
I saw this as a problem recently from someone and thought it would make a good post. As I was...
2014-01-20
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Assumptions and clusters – the double whammy
I was recently investigating an issue that stemmed from a database being in the recovery_pending state. A quick investigation through...
2014-01-20
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #67
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-20
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SQL Server 2014 – Buffer Pool Extension
Wanted: more RAM
In an ideal world (well, a DBA’s ideal world, anyway) all database servers would have enough memory to...
2014-01-20
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Time for a Quick Rant
This is an actual quote from what we can only assume is a functional human being:
The database is very big...
2014-01-20
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Who Do You Rely On?
We tend to think of ourselves as self reliant. Sit and think for a second, how many people do you...
2014-01-24 (first published: 2014-01-20)
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PowerShell – Program List – 32/64 Bit – Local/Remote Machies
This Powershell script list all the installed application on both 32 and 64 bit applications, particularly useful for people managing...
2014-01-20
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Transactions: Who, What and Where
Recently we had a scenario where we had a handful of queries being blocked. Nothing unusual there but when I...
2014-01-23 (first published: 2014-01-20)
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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...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Let's Talk Certifications, which is...
Force join by longest possible choice
Title pretty much says it. I want to join to a table that has...
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building a SQL Server Fleet...
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