I’m Speaking at PASS Summit 2015
It’s this time of the year again, when PASS announces the speakers in the biggest SQL Server event in the...
2015-06-29
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SQL Server Radio – Virtualization and Independent Consulting
I recently recorded a podcast with the SQL Server Radio group and discussed virtualization, high availability, and independent consulting topics. I...
2015-06-29
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SSC Editorial: Exit Lines & Writing Editorials
I’m trying to evolve a little in the topics I pick and how I write them to push the boundaries...
2015-06-29
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Sneak Preview – Podcast 010 - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 1 minutesLet’s Play A Game! So, just to tickle your fancy, here is...
The post Sneak Preview – Podcast 010...
2015-06-29
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SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.1 has been released
Microsoft is all about rapid release cycles nowadays. We already experienced this with Power BI, where monthly new features and...
2015-06-29
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I’m on WOxPod! Podcast
A few weeks ago, while at SQL Saturday Philadelphia, Chris Bell, SQL Server MVP and co-leader of PASS DC user group graciously...
2015-06-29
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Zero to Speaker pt 2
A few months ago I wrote a post about the fact that I had actually submitted a session to PASS...
2015-07-03 (first published: 2015-06-29)
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My first SQL 2016 bug
A little while back SQL Server 2016 CTP2 was announced and I have spent some time playing with it (read: spent...
2015-06-29
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Understanding, Planning and Configuring Distributed Cache Service || Part 1
Hi All,
Major expectation raised by user for SharePoint other then Search ,is to have Good User Experience and Faster in...
2015-06-29
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Columnstore Indexes – part 57 (“Segment Alignment Maintenance”)
Continuation from the previous 56 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
In this post I want to focus...
2015-06-28
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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...
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