Does Business Intelligence equal Data Warehousing?
I have seen many times at clients where the terms business intelligence and data warehousing are used interchangeably. In reality, these...
2013-10-03
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Generating a unique identifier outside of SQL and persisting it…
I’ve been thinking about a question from a application developer regarding generating a unique identifier outside of SQL and persisting...
2013-10-03
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Generating a unique identifier outside of SQL and persisting it…
I’ve been thinking about a question from a application developer regarding generating a unique identifier outside of SQL and persisting...
2013-10-08 (first published: 2013-10-03)
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Farewell Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy died yesterday. I’ve been reading his books for a long time and I think I’ve read them all...
2013-10-03
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Wrapping Up the 2013 PASS Election–Part 1
Yesterday the results were announced, with Jen Stirrup, Tim Ford, and Amy Lewis winning seats for the two year term...
2013-10-03
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SQL Server – Restoring a TDE Encrypted Database to a Different Server
In this article I will show you how to restore a database that is encrypted with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)...
2013-10-03
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SQL Server –Encrypting and Securing Native Backups Using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Being part of the database engineering team, we were given a task to setup disaster recovery program for some of...
2013-10-03
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Get The Backup History for Databases
Below is a script that I use to find the backup history for all the databases on a single instance. There is an inline ‘WHERE’ clause that is currently...
2013-10-03
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PASS SQL Saturday Events : October 2013
PASS SQL Saturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Please note...
2013-10-02
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PASS SQL Saturday Events : October 2013
PASS SQL Saturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Please...
2013-10-02
603 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Forums
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