Daily Coping 14 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to thank someone and tell them how they made a difference for you. I’ve had a lot of success in my life, as well as...
2023-02-14
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Speaking at Techorama 2023
I’m excited to announce I’ve been selected again as a speaker for Techorama 2023. Techorama is one of the biggest Microsoft-focused events in the European mainland, and it’s always...
2023-02-14
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 02-06-2023
Hello Dear Reader! We had a great last week on Tales from the Field. This weekend was also a really nice one. On Saturday a group of friends gathered...
2023-02-13
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The Baseline for Flyway
In my previous post, I set up the Flyway Desktop projects for SQL Server and PostgreSQL. I also added a table to each platform for development. In this post,...
2023-02-24 (first published: 2023-02-13)
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Daily Coping 13 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to show an active interest by asking questions when talking to others. I listen more and more these days. I’m trying to input less and...
2023-02-13
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Queries Impacting TempDB
The question came up that someone wanted to monitor the queries impacting tempdb using Extended Events. Initially, I was pretty sure that there was no real way to do...
2023-02-13
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Build Once – Add Metadata
When working in business intelligence, data engineering or data in general, there are some “mantras” that are being adopted by the larger community as “best practices”. For example, I...
2023-02-14 (first published: 2023-02-13)
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Daily Coping 10 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to send a message to let someone know you’re thinking of them. I reached out a friend the other day, someone I know from the...
2023-02-10
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New Microsoft Purview features
Microsoft Purview, formally called Azure Purview (see Azure Purview is generally available) has recently released a number of new cool features. I wanted to call out a few of...
2023-02-22 (first published: 2023-02-09)
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Daily Coping 9 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to write down your hopes or plans for the future. Hopes are vague, and plans are easier, so here are some plans: Plan a trip...
2023-02-09
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Blogs
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
Forums
Stored Procedures for Server-Level Object and Column Search
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Databricks Genie Spaces for SQL Analysts: Natural Language Querying Without Leaving Your Data Platform
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The Costs of Multiple Platforms
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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