Potential Backup Software Issues with Read-Only Databases in FULL Recovery
If you decide to park a database in read-only mode for a long period of time, go ahead and alter...
2013-11-13 (first published: 2013-11-05)
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A tour of the transaction log : Part 2 DELETE operations
In the last Tour of the Transaction Log we looked at how INSERT operations behave in the transaction log.
In this...
2013-11-04
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Dealing with Power Pivot to Tabular Upgrade Errors
Upgrading from Power Pivot workbooks to SSAS Tabular models is usually a pretty seamless process. This is part of the...
2013-11-11 (first published: 2013-11-04)
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Speaker of the Month, November 2013
Yeah, I’m a couple of days late. Tough. My blog. My rules.
Speaking of rules. Speaker of the Month is chosen...
2013-11-04
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Lock Pages in Memory in SQL Server on VMware – Why or Why Not
Two weeks ago I presented my session entitled “Squeezing Top Performance from Your Virtualized SQL Server” at the SQL PASS...
2013-11-12 (first published: 2013-11-04)
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sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V3.0
These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each sp returns three data...
2013-11-11 (first published: 2013-11-04)
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Do You Need A Log Recovery Tool?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post dispelling the myth that the simple recovery model disables the transaction...
2013-11-04
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Cumulative Update – 9 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available !
The 9th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 is now available for download at the...
2013-11-04
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Cumulative Update – 10 for SQL Server 2012 RTM Is Now Available !
The 10th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 RTM is now available. Cumulative Update 10 contains all the hotfixes...
2013-11-04
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New Performance Tips eBook Out from Red Gate
Not too long ago Red Gate asked for quick tips on SQL Server performance intended for developers. I sent a...
2013-11-04
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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