EightKB – Schedule published
Today we announced the schedule for EightKB EightKB was setup by Anthony Nocentino (b|t), Mark Wilkinson (b|t), and myself as we wanted to put on an event that delved...
2020-05-21 (first published: 2020-05-06)
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Negative identity values don’t suck
A quick(er) post this week, in response to Greg Low’s blog post from a few weeks ago titled “Don’t start identity columns or sequences with large negative values.” Greg...
2020-05-06
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Daily Coping 6 May 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-05-06
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Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user
This is an interesting error that you’ll occasionally get when accessing an AD/Windows ID. Msg 15404, Level 16, State 11, ... Continue reading
2020-05-06
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Speaking at GroupBy Conference – Spring 2020
I’m excited to announce I’ll be speaking at the virtual GroupBy conference this year. Thanks everyone who voted! I’ll be speaking at the European day on May 12th at...
2020-05-06
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TIL: Get-DbaLastBackup
(This post comes from one of our Junior DBAs – @SQLDork) I’ve been learning dbatools over the past week or so, you can read the previous blog posts here...
2020-05-06
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Tracking Costs in Microsoft Azure via Tags
Moving to public cloud such as Azure, AWS or even private cloud services you need to be tracking costs and seeing if you are “effective”. What is the best...
2020-05-06
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SQL Server Architecture – Network Protocols, Database, Storage & Relation Engine, SQLOS
SQL Server Architecture SQL Server is Microsoft RDMS that works on a client-server architecture. Here, End-user sends a request and SQL Server accepts, process, and share the result with...
2020-05-06
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Daily Coping 5 May 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-05-05
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May the forced be with you?
Today is May the fourth and I’ll start by saying: Happy Star Wars day to all. Since it is May the fourth I figured a Star Wars themed post...
2020-05-21 (first published: 2020-05-05)
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Blogs
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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Let's Talk Certifications
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Force join by longest possible choice
Title pretty much says it. I want to join to a table that has...
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
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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