Scalzi’s Law of Cleverness, as applied to resumes
John Scalzi (blog, Twitter) – science fiction writer, Hugo award winner, philosopher, and blogger extraordinaire – has an adage that I wish...
2013-12-16
943 reads
Forty Things You Didn’t Know About SQL Server
Last week I delivered a seminar at the Expert Days 2013 event by the name of 40 Things You Didn’t...
2013-12-16
591 reads
NFC Tags-Fun, And Maybe Useful at SQLSaturday
Last week I had one of those days when I read something and then heard someone talking about the same...
2013-12-16
911 reads
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Presentation Given at Vermont PASS SQL Server User Group Last Week
This past Wednesday evening, 11th Dec, I braved the snowy roads down from Montreal to Winooski (Burlington area) to join...
2013-12-16
1,347 reads
Setting up Security on sub sites in SharePoint 2010
A lot of companies have several departments and want to limit the sub sites users can view. For example, the...
2013-12-20 (first published: 2013-12-16)
1,552 reads
Nine T-SQL best practices
SQL Server databases are the backbone of many enterprise applications, and good Transact-SQL (T-SQL) code is the best way to...
2013-12-16
978 reads
Case-Sensitive Updates in a Case-Insensitive World
Assuming you're in a case-insensitive ("CI" in the collation name) column, this UPDATE statement:
UPDATE tablefoo
set foo = 'Z'
where foo = 'z'
will just...
2013-12-20 (first published: 2013-12-16)
1,817 reads
Talk Your Boss Into A Free Lunch and Giveaways!: Day 6
Monday Giveaway!
It's Monday again! I know we all hate Mondays, but let's have a Fun Monday!It's another week to give...
2013-12-16
660 reads
Recent events wrapup
The last two weeks were just incredible! I gave my first SQL Saturday PreCon training session in Washington DC and...
2013-12-15
664 reads
MDX Implementing Logical OR On Members of Different Hierarchies
Reference: MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Cookbook by Tomislav Piasevoli In MDX, when two or more members of the same set are placed on a...
2013-12-15
20 reads
Blogs
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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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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RegEx Functions IV
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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