The Unconventional Guide to How to Implement Lookup Transformations TIP #124
This is one the articles in the series of step by step SSIS tutorial. In this post, we are going...
2015-12-20
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Advent of Code Contest
I saw the post from Steve Jones about the Advent of Code contest and decided to take a look. The first...
2015-12-18
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Monday Morning SQL Break – December 28, 2015
It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me...
2015-12-18
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A Few Days Off in Space Country
The new Star Wars film opens today, and while I won’t see it then, perhaps I’ll get to it early...
2015-12-18
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Speaker of the Month: December 2015
The hardest presentations I’ve ever given in my life were not to large audiences or in big rooms. They weren’t...
2015-12-18
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How to do Step by Step Merge Join Transformations - #123
In last post tip #122, We discussed Merge transformation. Now in this tip, we are going to discuss Merge Join....
2015-12-31 (first published: 2015-12-18)
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New Whitepaper – SQL Server Licensing Reduction
Poor storage performance continues to be the largest pain point with enterprise Database Administrators in today’s virtual world. However, it...
2015-12-17
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What Permissions Does This Login Have?
I recently was tasked with this ticket:
Please add new login Domain\Bob to server MyServer. Grant the login the same permissions...
2015-12-17
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Could not Register Service Principal Name
Have you ever seen the error below in your SQL Server log shortly after startup? You’ll actually see two of...
2015-12-29 (first published: 2015-12-17)
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SET ANSI_NULLS, NOCOUNT and QUOTED_IDENTIFIER.
Hi Guys, When you generate a script to create a Stored Procedure, below three statements are generate by default. SET ANSI_NULLS on SET NOCOUNT on SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER on Why do we...
2015-12-17
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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