A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 14.3: Debugging and Deployment
By Steve Bolton
…………Throughout this series of amateur self-tutorials in SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM), I’ve often said that working with...
2013-09-16
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SQL Saturday #191 Kansas City was Great
This past weekend I presented a preview of my SQL PASS Summit spotlight session entitled “Squeezing Top Performance From Your...
2013-09-16
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New Whitepaper: 5 Most Common Critical SQL Integrity Issues
Have you been putting off running integrity checks on your databases? Are you unsire where to start or what to...
2013-09-16
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Backups, Encryption and Branding in San Diego
This weekend is SQL Saturday #249 in San Diego. I’m looking forward to the trip for a few reasons, but...
2013-09-16
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PowerShell – List Local or Remote Programs with an Exclusion List of Programs
This post is to list all the software installed on your local or remote machines. The exclusion list is an...
2013-09-16
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How to Check SQL Server Evaluation Version Expire Date ?
SQL Server Evaluation Edition is available free of cost. It’s a trial version & valid for limited time of period. The...
2013-09-16
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #49
Monday morning and it’s time for weekly round-up. If you follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet...
2013-09-16
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Why the Lazy Spool Is Bad
First thing, there are no bad operators, just bad parents, uh, I mean query writers, or database designers, or ORM...
2013-09-24 (first published: 2013-09-16)
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DBA Myths: You can’t use an alias in an UPDATE statement.
I’ve found a very common belief among users of T-SQL (both DBAs and Developers) is that you can’t use an...
2013-09-16
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Notes from SQLSaturday #232 in Orlando
Our seventh annual SQLSaturday here in Orlando went well. To the casual observer it might appear to happen without effort,...
2013-09-16
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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