Advent of Code – Day 4
Day 4 of the Advent of Code has us mining for data in MD5 hashes, which is out of the comfort zone for a SQL DBA to say the...
2015-12-24
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Advent of Code – Day 4
Day 4 of the Advent of Code has us mining for data in MD5 hashes, which is out of the...
2015-12-24
574 reads
Advent of Code – Day 3
Continuing with the language-independent code challenge on Advent of Code – Day 3, I’m tasked with figuring out how well a drunken elf can guide Santa to houses. Since...
2015-12-24
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Advent of Code – Day 3
Continuing with the language-independent code challenge on Advent of Code – Day 3, I’m tasked with figuring out how well a...
2015-12-24
516 reads
Thoughts on Advent of Code
Over the past couple of days I’ve posted several times about the Advent of Code Contest and worked my way through...
2015-12-24
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SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availablility Enhancements
In this Article I have listed out SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Enhancements.SQL Server 2016 [CTP 3.2] SQL Server 2016 CTP Standard Edition...
2015-12-24
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Specifying Paths to External Items (Report Builder and SSRS) in SharePoint with PowerShell
[2015-Dec-24] My story: two SSRS items (main report and its sub-report) need to be deployed to SharePoint. Trivial task, and...
2015-12-24
1,785 reads
Advent of Code #3 – Part 2
Adding to my solution for #3 part 2, I finally got it, but I paid the price for not adding...
2015-12-23
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Advent of Code #3 – Part 1
Part 1 isn’t bad. Parse a string that has direction indicators and track each location you stop at. I’m trying...
2015-12-23
1,013 reads
Advent of Code #2
This one gives you a 1000 rows of package dimensions. You calculate the surface area needed for wrapping paper, plus...
2015-12-23
676 reads
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