Shutting down nodes in Azure Kubernetes Service
A while back I wrote a post on Adjusting Pod Eviction Timings in Kubernetes. To test the changes made in that post I had to shut down nodes in...
2022-07-04 (first published: 2022-06-24)
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Installing the mssql-cli on Ubuntu 22.04
I really like the mssql-cli tool. I use it pretty much everyday however it seems like it’s not being maintained anymore and as such, there are issues when trying...
2022-06-08 (first published: 2022-05-13)
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Space Invaders on Kubernetes
A while ago I blogged about an awesome Chaos Engineering tools built by Eugenio Marzo (t) call KubeInvaders. Since then Eugenio has updated the repo to make it easier...
2022-03-25 (first published: 2022-03-10)
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Replacing VS Code with Vim
OK so maybe not replacing, this is more like emulating VS Code in Vim. Disclaimer – I like VS Code and I won’t be uninstalling it anytime soon and...
2022-01-14
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Running Powershell code in Vim
I’ve been mucking about with Vim a bit recently and recently found myself (for reasons unknown tbh) writing powershell scripts in it. Once I’d written a script, I would...
2022-01-26 (first published: 2022-01-07)
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Building a pacemaker cluster to deploy a SQL Server availability group in Azure
There are new Ubuntu Pro 20.04 images available in the Azure marketplace with SQL Server 2019 pre-installed so I thought I’d run through how to create a three node...
2021-12-08 (first published: 2021-12-01)
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Operating system error 995 when adding a database to an availability group
I was adding databases to an availability group (SQL Server 2017 CU20 instance) the other day and one database failed to automatically seed to the secondary. When I looked...
2021-10-18 (first published: 2021-10-05)
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Using environment variable files for SQL Server in containers
There are a whole bunch of environment variables that can be used to configure SQL Server when run in a Docker container. You can check out the full list...
2021-10-08 (first published: 2021-09-24)
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Updating SQL Server container memory limits on the fly
When running multiple SQL Server containers on a Docker host we should always be setting CPU and Memory limits for each container (see the flags for memory and cpus...
2021-08-18 (first published: 2021-08-06)
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A storage failover issue with SQL Server on Kubernetes
I’ve been running a proof of concept for SQL Server on Kubernetes over the last year or so (ok, probably longer than that…hey, I’m a busy guy ?? )...
2021-07-26
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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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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