Who is your Fail-Safe Agent??
Did you know it is possible for SQL Server Agent to alert you of problems if something goes haywire with your Agent? Have you ever had an issue with...
2020-09-02 (first published: 2020-08-25)
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Daily Coping 25 Aug 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-08-25
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Azure SQL Database – Read Only Endpoints
One of the main benefits of configuring active geo-replication for Azure SQL Database is leveraging the read-only endpoint, a good technique to split away read only activity from OLTP...
2020-08-25
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New Pluralsight Course – Kubernetes Package Administration with Helm
My first course Kubernetes Package Administration with Helm has been published on Pluralsight and is now available! Check out the course overview here This course is aimed at anyone...
2020-08-25
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Recursively Querying Row Groups
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Recursive queries are fun to plan and write. They can be frustrating too depending on the complexity of the problem you are trying to...
2020-08-25
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Recursively Querying Row Groups
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Recursively Querying Related Rows
Recursive queries are fun to plan and write. They can be frustrating too depending on the complexity of the problem you...
2020-08-25
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Recursively Querying Row Groups
Recursively Querying Related Rows Recursive queries are fun to plan and write. They can be frustrating too depending on the complexity of the problem you are trying to solve....
2020-09-02 (first published: 2020-08-25)
613 reads
Don’t Forget Unique with FILESTREAM–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. While testing FILSTREAM with SQL Clone the other...
2020-08-24
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New Pluralsight Course – Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security
My new course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security” is now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in head over to Pluralsight! ...
2020-08-24
15 reads
New Pluralsight Course – Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security
My new course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security” is now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in head over to Pluralsight! This course...
2020-08-24
30 reads
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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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