Sometimes It’s A Dirty Job – #TSQL2sDAY #50
Sometimes being a DBA really stinks. You try to follow best practices in everything you do. You’re not shrinking databases...
2014-01-14
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How to throttle your Storage with Resource Governor in SQL Server 2014
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-14
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Flash sale – discount code for SQL Saturday Nashville Precon
Announcing a flash sale today from 10a-12p Central time for my upcoming SQL Saturday Nashvillepreconference training session ‘Virtualization for SQL...
2014-01-14
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PowerShell – Change SQL Server Login Password
Here’s a quick post detailing a PowerShell script that can be used to change the password for a SQL Server Login. Regular readers know that I practice the philosophy...
2014-01-14
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PowerShell – Change SQL Server Login Password
Here’s a quick post detailing a PowerShell script that can be used to change the password for a SQL Server...
2014-01-14
2,281 reads
SQL Server Quick Tip: Growing your database past 2TB on SQL Server 2008
A couple of days ago I had to manually grow the database data file for a client, they do not...
2014-01-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #50: Automation, how much of it is the same?
It’s the second Tuesday of the New Year, so here comes the first T-SQL Tuesday of 2014! SQLChow (blog | twitter)...
2014-01-14
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Microsoft Project Migration Template for the move to SQL 2012
For those planning a move to SQL Server 2012, although this process can apply for many Database Migrations, perhaps this Microsoft...
2014-01-13
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Do you clean up after yourself?
TweetG’day folks,
I remember a fair few years ago when I was relativly new to TSQL creating a stored procedure that...
2014-01-13
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SQL Server 2012 and Virtual Service Accounts
This post is written by David Postlethwaite
If you are using SQL Server 2012 you will probably have noticed that the...
2014-01-13
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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
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Force join by longest possible choice
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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