Creating New Database — Standard Settings
Recently I have been able to work with our development teams to not create new databases. There are several reasons for me making this request of the teams. The...
2020-07-21
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Distributed Tables in Azure Synapse SQL
Azure Synapse is the new Generation of SQL DW (Azure SQL Data Warehouse), that is launched in the past year In November 2019 the First announced for Azure SQL...
2020-07-21
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Daily Coping 21 Jul 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-07-21
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Finding & Downloading Required SQL Server Updates
A little while back, I offered up a one-liner to scan your SQL Server instances and report which ones are out of date. But what if you need to...
2020-07-21
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The Ironic DBA—My First Year as a DBA [Part 4]
My Favorite and Recommended Training Resources As I’ve been in intense, focused SQL Server training for the last year, I thought it would be a great time to share...
2020-07-31 (first published: 2020-07-21)
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Azure SQL Database – Advanced Threat Detection
You should always seriously consider enabling this feature. This is part of the ADS suite – Advanced Data Security and I will show you how good this pro-active service...
2020-07-21
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Finding & Downloading Required SQL Server Updates
A little while back, I offered up a one-liner to scan your SQL Server instances and report which ones are out of date. But what if you need to...
2020-07-21
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2020-07-21
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2020-07-21
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Multi-subnet AlwaysON Failover Testing - Part 2
Let’s do Multi-subnet AlwaysON failover testing for different scenarios
2020-07-21
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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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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