Friday Reading 2017-05-12
The weather this week in Dublin has been absolutely fantastic, please hold out for the weekend. Anyway, whilst I’ve been...
2017-05-12
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Copying files from/to a container
Last week I was having an issue with a SQL install within a container and to fix I needed to...
2017-05-10
2,132 reads
Monday Coffee 2017-05-08
Asking stupid questions
Oh boy have I asked some stupid questions in my time. Most recent was this question that I...
2017-05-08
337 reads
Friday Reading 2017-05-05
Into May and a big couple of events this week in SQL Nexus and the Powershell Conference EU 2017, looking...
2017-05-05
477 reads
Building a container running SQL Server 2014 SP2 Developer
One of the things about working with SQL in Docker is that you kinda have to use the images that...
2017-05-15 (first published: 2017-05-02)
2,426 reads
Monday Coffee 2017-05-01
Morning all, I know it’s a bank holiday in the UK & Ireland today but some of us still have to...
2017-05-01
282 reads
Friday Reading 2017-04-28
Nearly May! Although it’s been snowing this week in Dublin so summer still appears to be a while off…
Community driven...
2017-04-28
591 reads
Friday Reading 2017-04-28
Nearly May! Although it’s been snowing this week in Dublin so summer still appears to be a while off…
Community driven...
2017-04-28
527 reads
Pausing index rebuilds in SQL Server 2017
Last week Microsoft confirmed that the name of SQL vNext will indeed be SQL Server 2017. I was looking through...
2017-05-04 (first published: 2017-04-26)
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Pausing index rebuilds in SQL Server 2017
Last week Microsoft confirmed that the name of SQL vNext will indeed be SQL Server 2017. I was looking through...
2017-04-26
190 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