Database Master Keys can have more than one password.
Our subject for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party (#69) is Encryption, hosted by a guy with an awesome first...
2015-08-11
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10 Signs You’re Enjoying Your DBA Career Too Much
Most database professional recognize they have a good career path, and mostly enjoy the work they do. It’s possible to cross the...
2015-08-11
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Red Gate in the City - DLM Training workshop & UG in NYC - August 27, 2015
We have another great 1-DAY training workshop coming to New York City at MS NYC HQ 11 Times Square on...
2015-08-20 (first published: 2015-08-11)
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What is DBCC?
What is really mean by DBCC and what do people mean when they say DBCC?
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2015-08-11
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What is DBCC?
If I ask you what is DBCC, what would your answer be?
I want you to think about that one for...
2015-08-11
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Using Qure Profiler To Benchmark Tuning Progress
the problem of monster views
I’ve been working with tuning an application that performs a lot of Entity framework calls,...
2015-08-10
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Generating Estimated Plan and the Plan Cache
Does generating an Estimated Plan cause that plan to be loaded into the plan cache?
No.
What? Still here? You want more?...
2015-08-18 (first published: 2015-08-10)
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To AutoGrow or not?
Note: This is a repost of an older blog by Sean that’s still applicable. We’ve updated it with a note...
2015-08-10
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Cleaning Your #PowerBI Power Query Code
Over the weekend I found this nifty tool called Power Query Management Studio. Someone shared it on Twitter and you’ve...
2015-08-10
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SSIS Catalog – Path to backup file could not be determined
I was creating an SSIS catalog at a new project, but I was greeted with the following error message when...
2015-08-13 (first published: 2015-08-10)
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Blogs
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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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