Restoring a TDE Database on a New Instance
You’ve enabled Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) on one of your databases, and the server has failed. How do you get...
2013-08-19
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #45
It’s Monday, it’s time for weekly round-up #45. Technically, this should be #46, but since I went on vacation, I...
2013-08-19
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Azure Changes, While I’m Working
My laptop is out for repair. I’m working currently on a Surface Pro instead. It’s spurred me to do something...
2013-08-19
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Need Recommendations on Being a Better Listener
This past weekend I’ve been reading The Zen of Listening by Rebecca Shafir, part of my ongoing efforts to be...
2013-08-19
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CDC changes column-by-column instead of row-by-row, can you improve it???
CDC changes column-by-column instead of row-by-row, can you improve it???.
2013-08-19
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Using a system function as a computed column within a table-value function….
Wouldn’t it be nice if SQL Server allowed this functionality? for instance if did the below:-
I get the above error....
2013-08-19
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Execute SSIS Packages with a Macro in BIDS
When running SSIS packages in BIDS it is common to click on the green arrow at the top of BIDS...
2013-08-26 (first published: 2013-08-19)
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sp_SrvPermissions
Last week I posted my stored procedure for database permissions, sp_DBPermissions. A couple of days later I was demonstrating it...
2013-08-19
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CDC changes column-by-column instead of row-by-row, can you improve it???
I’m writing a table value function that returns a cdc recordset that, instead of returning changed data row-by-row, I need...
2013-08-19
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Fixing Page Life Expectancy (PLE)
What is Page Life Expectancy (PLE), what makes it drop, and how can I manage memory better? Abusing disks slows...
2013-08-20 (first published: 2013-08-19)
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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