Daily Coping 20 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to avoid blaming yourself or others. Find a helpful way forward. I’ve been busy lately. My days are jammed up with a number of presentations...
2022-10-20
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The Voice of the DBA
Daily Coping 19 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to take time to reflect on what you have accomplished recently. What have I done recently? Lots of stuff, but a couple things come out...
2022-10-19
21 reads
Windows 11 Complaints
I upgraded my primary laptop to Windows 11. A few people had said they liked it, I know that I needed to keep up at some point, and in...
2022-10-19
35 reads
Daily Coping 18 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to share an important goal with someone you trust. I’m not sharing an important goal here. Honestly, some of the things that are important to...
2022-10-18
28 reads
An Update to Skipping the Leading Digit in T-SQL–#SQLNewBlogger
There was an interesting question in a forum, which I wrote about before. How do you skip the leading digit in a numeric value. I had looked at a...
2022-10-18 (first published: 2022-10-17)
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Daily Coping 17 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make progress on a project or task you have been avoiding Most of the things I do for work are spent looking in the...
2022-10-17
20 reads
Daily Coping 14 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to look for the good in people around you today. I’m working remotely today in New York. I flew up last night to be with...
2022-10-14
35 reads
Daily Coping 13 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to remind yourself that things can change for the better. It can be easy to get upset/sad/depressed/angry/etc. about the way something is in the world....
2022-10-13
16 reads
Goal Progress for Sep 2022
I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2022. Well, clearly I’ve gotten away from my goals. No updates...
2022-10-12
21 reads
Daily Coping 12 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to start your day with the most important thing on your to-do list. I’m writing this on 11 Oct. The most important thing today is...
2022-10-12
27 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Forums
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