SQLSaturday #408 Houston
I have been selected again to speak in Houston (Saturday, June 13th) for a SQLSaturday event and look forward to...
2015-06-04
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Sysmail_add_profileaccount_sp – SQL Server Database Mail Stored Procedure – Part 7
Hi friends, in last previous blogs we created database mail profile and database mail account. In this blog we will...
2015-06-04
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FORMATing Dates
I’m writing this post as a way to help motivate the #SQLNewBloggers out there. Read the bottom for a few...
2015-06-11 (first published: 2015-06-03)
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What is Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics?
Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) is a fully managed cloud service for real-time processing of streaming data. ASA makes it easy...
2015-06-03
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Blacklist a Set of IPs - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe talked about whitelisting IPs before, but what about the opposite, blacklisting...
The post Blacklist a Set of...
2015-06-03
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Notes From The May 2015 oPASS Meeting
Really late posting these, forgot to put on my task list!
About 20 attendeesLots of good questions, and I saw quite...
2015-06-03
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Clean up all (most) of the orphans on an instance
Recently we have been doing a number of instance moves as part of a large upgrade project. And as anyone...
2015-06-03
1,685 reads
The Key to Successful Analysis
The key to successful analysis is to ask enough good questions.
How do you know that you’ve asked enough questions? When...
2015-06-12 (first published: 2015-06-03)
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SQL Server 2016 features to look for -1
At this year’s inaugural Ignite Conference in held in Chicago Microsoft announced that the next release of SQL Server, previously...
2015-06-03
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HealthySQL - A Comprehensive Guide to Healthy SQL Server Performance Now Available - 10% off
Announcing my new book available in hard copy and eBook, HealthySQL -
A Comprehensive Guide to Healthy SQL Server Performance, by...
2015-06-08 (first published: 2015-06-03)
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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