January 2014 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
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It’s the first Monday of 2014. Time for a new year and some resolutions to be a better DBA....
2014-01-06
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #65
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-06
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SQL Server Quickie #9 – Clustered Indexes
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-06
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Interview Questions – what to ask the company interviewing you
Previously, I posted a list of interview questions that I ask job candidates. This post is about the questions that...
2014-01-10 (first published: 2014-01-06)
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Predictions for 2014
I love technology predictions because they are usually so wildly inaccurate that at the end of the year it’s pretty...
2014-01-07 (first published: 2014-01-06)
2,579 reads
Cleveland rocks in February!
Heading to SQLSaturday #241
It’s a brand new year, so start it off right. Cleveland is hosting its third SQLSaturday on...
2014-01-10 (first published: 2014-01-06)
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PowerShell – Find OS architecture (32 bit or 64 bit) of local or remote machines Using Powershell
Method 1: Environment Variable
PS:\>$ENV:PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
Method 2: Using Win32_OperatingSystem
ps:\>$computername=’abcd’
ps:\>(Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem -computername $computername).OSArchitecture
Method 3: Using Win32_Processor
ps:\>$computername=’abcd’
ps:\>Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Processor -ComputerName $ComputerName| Select-Object AddressWidth
Method 4:[IntPtr]::Size - Gets the...
2014-01-06
2,170 reads
Looking Back At the Droid Razr Maxx
It’s been 18 or 19 months since I upgraded from the Droid X to the Maxx. The X was a...
2014-01-06
388 reads
South Alabama Day of .Net
Just received an email from my friend Ryan Duclos announcing the South Alabama Day of .Net in Mobile, Alabama, on...
2014-01-06
343 reads
Transactions: Rolling back a transaction inside a stored procedure.
So over the last couple of posts I’ve talked about the fact that the ROLLBACK command will roll back an...
2014-01-13 (first published: 2014-01-06)
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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
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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