The DBA That Practices Database Restores
We are often told that we need to practice our restores. And it might not be obvious, but the reason...
2014-01-10
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Reblog: January 3 to January 9
Photo credit – JStove
Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have...
2014-01-10
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The SQLSaturday Wiki–Revisited
I saw a discussion on Twitter yesterday where Kendal Van Dyke referenced the SQLSaturday wiki as a resource, I thought...
2014-01-10
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Schedule Time To Review Your Passwords & Using a Password Manager
I use a password manager and it currently has more than 150 accounts in it, ranging from my checking account...
2014-01-17 (first published: 2014-01-10)
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SSRS – Identify a scheduled SSRS Report
Initiating subscription is a tedious task in SQL Server Reporting Services. Each subscription in Reporting Services is setup as a...
2014-01-10
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How To Campaign For the PASS Board
Let’s say you’ve decided to run, good! What do you do next? I’m not going to give you a blueprint...
2014-01-10
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Friday Followup For January 10, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-01-10
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Answer -Question of the Week - 2/1/2014 - Question 1
Question :-
Suppose we have to design a database in which employees can work on multiple projects.There are many designation defined...
2014-01-10
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That Awkward Moment When I Started Channeling Brent Ozar
If you read my end-of-year post (you did, right?), you’ll recall that I mentioned that 2013 was a tough year...
2014-01-09
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January 2014 S3OLV and Tabular Models
This is really late notice. We had some extenuating circumstances this month and then a last minute cancellation. Now that everything is squared away, we have some great news....
2014-01-09
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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