A New Word: Gobo
gobo – n. the delerium of having spent all day in an aesthetic frame of mind, taking photos across the city, getting lost in an art museum – which...
2023-10-20
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Setup Ola Index Maintenance with Azure Runbooks and Terraform
Yes, you still need to do some work to maintain indexes in Azure SQL Database. This post will walk you through setting up statistic updates and index maintenance using...
2023-11-06 (first published: 2023-10-19)
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SQL Server query runtime is not everything
SQL Server query developers, listen up! Query execution time is not everything you should be worried about. You need to examine the parse and compilation time for each of...
2023-11-03 (first published: 2023-10-18)
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Using the Pure Storage PowerShellSDK2 - Part 3 - Getting Performance Data from FlashArray
Welcome back to the second installment of our blog series on using the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK2. In this post, we’ll learn how to retrieve performance data from FlashArray...
2023-11-01 (first published: 2023-10-18)
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SQL Server Backups are Not a High-Availability Solution
Please continue doing your backups! Backups are Disaster Recovery, yes…but not HA. Some will argue with this (in the comments most likely), but I broadly define “High Availability” as...
2023-11-01 (first published: 2023-10-17)
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T-SQL Tuesday 167 – Encryption and Data Protection Roundup
Huge thanks to everyone who responded to my invitation to blog on Encryption and Data Protection for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. I got what I hoped for, which was...
2023-10-30 (first published: 2023-10-17)
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Fabulous Stuff in Fabric – Part 1: Cloning Tables
A while ago I had a little blog post series about cool stuff in Snowflake. I’m starting up a similar series, but this time for Microsoft Fabric. I’m not...
2023-10-30 (first published: 2023-10-17)
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Creating a SQL Clone Image from a SQL Clone Database
A customer asked if a new image could be created from a database that was itself a SQL Clone. It can, and I’ll show that in this post. This...
2023-10-27 (first published: 2023-10-16)
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 5
Last week, in the post Common Mistakes in SQL Server - Part 4 I explained about the Auto Growth configuration in SQL Server and how it can adversely impact....
2023-10-16
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 5
Last week, in the post Common Mistakes in SQL Server - Part 4 I explained about the Auto Growth configuration in SQL Server and how it can adversely impact....
2023-10-27 (first published: 2023-10-16)
1,249 reads
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T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
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') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers