Order of a Result Set in SQL
I have seen people build procedures that rely on a result set being returned in a certain order. This is...
2013-09-14
773 reads
Windows Azure Service Dashboard – Checkout the health of Azure Services
Windows Azure Service Dashboard is an excellent way to know the health/availability of your Windows Azure Services.
You might always want...
2013-09-13
1,329 reads
Reblog: September 6 to September 12
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information...
2013-09-13
885 reads
Join The SQL Crazy Train
One of the best lines I heard in the past few weeks was “That train has sailed.” Combine that with a crazy schedule and we now have a SQL...
2013-09-13
9 reads
Join The SQL Crazy Train
One of the best lines I heard in the past few weeks was “That train has sailed.” Combine that with...
2013-09-13
902 reads
Are Foreign Keys Better Than Indexes?
When I first saw this question I thought to myself, “Self. Don’t you think that’s comparing apples to hammers? Yes,...
2013-09-13
950 reads
Q&A From “5 Ways to Improve Performance through Indexing”
A few weeks back spoke at a Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s on indexing that was titled 5 Ways to Improve Performance through...
2013-09-13
686 reads
PASS Summit agenda now published and I’m speaking!
For those of you who may have been living under a rock for the last few years every year PASS...
2013-09-13
488 reads
Improved Customer Support
In the last couple of months SQLTreeo has improved her customer contact skills. Before it was just an email to...
2013-09-13
828 reads
Connection Pool limit exceeds Error
Sometimes below error occurs on our web applications hosted on IIS connected with SQL Server.
Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed...
2013-09-13
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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