Monday Coffee 2016-12-12
Speaking and presenting
One of my biggest fears is public speaking and judging by this article, I’m not alone.
However it’s something...
2016-12-12
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Friday Reading 2016-12-09
One week nearer to Xmas! Before I spend the weekend braving the centre of town desperately wondering what presents to...
2016-12-09
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SQL Server & Containers – Part Four
In this final part of my series on SQL Server & Containers I’ll detail an option to run earlier versions of...
2016-12-26 (first published: 2016-12-07)
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Monday Coffee 2016-12-05
You are the DBA your company makes you. Aren’t you?
SQL Server has such a wide range of features that no...
2016-12-05
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Friday Reading 2016-12-02
Another week almost over so here’s a random selection of articles that I’ve been reading…
Changing the SQL Server port on...
2016-12-02
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SQL Server & Containers – Part Three
This post follows on from Part Two in which we created a custom docker image. We’ll now look at pushing...
2016-12-14 (first published: 2016-11-30)
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Monday Coffee 2016-11-28
MCSA SQL Server 2016
The new SQL 2016 MCSA exams are out and joy of joys, the DBA path no longer...
2016-11-28
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Friday Reading 2016-11-25
Friday again so before I spend a weekend watching sci-fi movies, I’ll be reading:-
Virtue in the Virtual
Tony Davies discusses containerisation...
2016-11-25
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SQL Server & Containers – Part Two
This post follows on from SQL Server & Containers – Part 1 and will go through how to build custom container images.
Since...
2016-11-23
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Monday Coffee 2016-11-21
Well there were quite a few announcements in the SQL Server world last week.
SQL Server vNext CTP was made...
2016-11-21
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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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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