Top 10 Enhancements to Azure SQL Database in 2015
Top 10 Enhancements to Azure SQL Database in 2015DECEMBER 27, 2015
Introduction
2015 has been a massive year for Azure SQL Database....
2015-12-27
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Type 6 or Hybrid Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension with Biml
In my previous post, I provided the design pattern and Biml for a pure Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD). When...
2015-12-27
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Columnstore Indexes – part 75 (“Stretch DB & Columnstore”)
Continuation from the previous 74 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post focuses on one of...
2015-12-26
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Learn How to Insert Data From Stored Procedure Into Table?
Stored Procedures are considered most efficient way for calling and retrieving data and hence users always look forward to encapsulate...
2015-12-26
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Bad queries!!!
Once it happend quite a black Friday for my environment after a deployment. The application got sucked so that becoming worst and...
2015-12-25
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How a Bad query can rise up your CPU to ceiling
Once it happened quite a black Friday for my environment after a deployment. The application got sucked so that becoming worst and worst. The average CPU raised over 80% (Figure 1)....
2015-12-25
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How a Bad query can rise up your CPU to ceiling
Once it happened quite a black Friday for my environment after a deployment. The application got sucked so that becoming worst and worst. The average CPU raised over 80% (Figure 1)....
2015-12-25
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How a Bad query can rise up your CPU to ceiling
Once it happened quite a black Friday for my environment after a deployment. The application got sucked so that becoming worst and...
2015-12-25
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Columnstore Indexes – part 74 (“Row Group Merging & Cleanup, SQL Server 2016 edition”)
Continuation from the previous 73 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Row Group merging & cleanup is a very...
2015-12-25
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Closing Down for the Year
Today is my last day of work for 2015. I’m actually proud that I’ve managed to take almost all my...
2015-12-24
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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...
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