SQLSaturday Austin – Jan 30th
I will be speaking with other SQL Server experts for SQLSaturday #461 in Austin on Jan 30th, 2016. This is...
2016-01-18
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SQL From South West to Scotland : SQLSaturdays #496 & #502
I’m happy, honoured and humbled to be able to say that I will be presenting pre-cons and both SQL Saturday...
2016-01-17
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Troubleshooting SQL Server Operating System Error 995
Operating System Error Message
Error: 18210, Severity: 16, State:1
BackupMedium::ReportIoError: write failure on backup device ‘VDI_ DeviceID ‘. Operating system error 995...
2016-01-16
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Chips and Margaritas at SQL Saturday #461
It was a few years back that my wife and I planned a trip to the Austin City Lights music...
2016-01-15
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T-SQL for UDFs
SQL Server has plenty of built-in functions, but sometimes we just have to combine some of them to create functions for our purposes. Such one, for example, is the function...
2016-01-15
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T-SQL for UDFs
SQL Server has plenty of built-in functions, but sometimes we just have to combine some of them to create functions for our purposes. Such one, for example, is the function...
2016-01-15
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T-SQL for UDFs
SQL Server has plenty of built-in functions, but sometimes we just have to combine some of them to create functions for...
2016-01-15
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Flexibility of T-SQL for designing user defined functions
SQL Server has plenty of built-in functions but sometimes we just have to combine some of them to create functions for...
2016-01-15
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2016-01-15
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2016-01-14
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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