Since witnessing a rather nasty cyber attack around a year ago, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about security. Do we really know how secure our SQL Servers are?...
2023-10-09 (first published: 2023-09-26)
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My slides are here: VCS Primer Denver 2023 This was an overview of what version control is, and the basics of Git. Not too many questions, but if you...
2023-09-25
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The Future Data Driven 2023 virtual conference is coming on Wednesday, September 27. Register today and save a note in your calendar. The event has a great schedule (scroll...
2023-09-25
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A few years ago SQL Prompt added a command palette to let you search the commands available. This is similar to the same concept in Visual Studio Code, ADS,...
2023-09-25
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The Identity property creates an incremental value for the specified column automatically, which is why it is widely used by developers when they designed the table and a primary...
2023-09-25
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The Identity property creates an incremental value for the specified column automatically, which is why it is widely used by developers when they designed the table and a primary...
2023-09-25
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Enable PowerShell Remoting
I use PowerShell quite a lot to manage servers, especially SQL Servers. So I need to be able to run PowerShell...
2023-09-25 (first published: 2023-09-24)
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Get Configuration Change History From the SQL Server Error Logs
There are several options if and when you need to see if any configuration change was...
2023-09-23
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How To Gain Access To SQL Server When No DBA
When I showed a draft of this article to a friend of mine, to...
2023-10-11 (first published: 2023-09-22)
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A Study in SQL Server Ad hoc Query Plans
We, (or maybe it’s just my dismissive attitude towards it), often think of ad hoc...
2023-09-23 (first published: 2023-09-22)
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By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
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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