Cumulative Update – 6 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Is Now Available !
The 6th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available. Cumulative Update 6 contains all...
2013-09-30
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The MERGE statement doesn’t have a WHERE clause.
What the heck? Even indexes have WHERE clauses these days. I can’t remember what I was reading when I saw...
2013-09-30
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MDX YTD Calculation Issus
If you are using the templates for MDX calculation built into SSAS 2008 you might run into some strange issues....
2013-09-30
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Speaking Twice on Oct 1, 2013
Carolina Technology Conference:
To start things off, I'll be speaking in the morning at the Carolina Technology Conference. I have a...
2013-09-30
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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Fires, SAN failures, tornados, and car accidents all came up today, yet it was a very good day at work. ...
2013-10-04 (first published: 2013-09-30)
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SQL Server Statistics
INTRODUCTION
Statistics contain information about the data. How the data is distributed inside the table. They are representation of a table....
2013-09-29
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MDX+SSRS #31– Query Designer in SSRS only allows the Measures dimension in the first axis
In Chapter 1 of the book MDX with SSAS 2012 Cookbook, in the first recipe “Putting data on x and...
2013-10-03 (first published: 2013-09-28)
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Strategizing your Index Maintenance in SQL Server
Index maintenance is part of the DBA’s life. Surely you have a maintenance task for this somewhere running daily or...
2013-09-28
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Do you want me to tell you the truth or do you want me to tell you what you want to hear?
We live in a Dilbert age.
If you are a DBA and have worked in organizations of any size you are...
2013-09-28
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Houston Tech Fest 2013 - SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's
Here is the downloadable file with all my sample scripts and slidedeck from my SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's presentation from...
2013-09-28
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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