The Discomfort Zone
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I read a book entitled The Phoenix Project. This book has been in my Kindle library...
2015-12-04 (first published: 2015-12-01)
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Summon Blue Screens of Death (for testing purposes only, of course)
Today I had a need to manually trigger and sustain a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) inside a Windows Server...
2015-11-30
841 reads
Monday Morning SQL Break – November 30, 2015
It’s Monday time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me on...
2015-11-30
841 reads
You should always have an “I got hit by a bus” backup plan
You have an on call, you have a business continuity plan, you have a disaster recovery plan but what happens...
2015-12-07 (first published: 2015-11-30)
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Row-Level Security part 2 – Controlling Write Access
My previous post was focused on controlling read operations. With the latest enhancements to the row-level security, it is now possible...
2015-12-03 (first published: 2015-11-29)
2,831 reads
Columnstore Indexes – part 73 (“Big Delta-Stores with Nonclustered Columnstore”)
Continuation from the previous 72 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Since the very first version of SQL...
2015-11-28
985 reads
Python Command Line Calls
There was a time I worked in a company any we lived in the command line. This was in the...
2015-11-27
1,116 reads
Find duplicate indexes in SSDT
Update new download location is https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/435e7238-0e64-4667-8980-5...
Duplicate indexes, one of the most pointless things you can do to a table that...
2015-11-27
990 reads
Find duplicate indexes in SSDT
Update new download location is https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/435e7238-0e64-4667-8980-5… Duplicate indexes, one of the most pointless things you can do to a table that just adds pure overhead. No one likes them...
2015-11-27
9 reads
Find duplicate indexes in SSDT
Update new download location is https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/435e7238-0e64-4667-8980-5… Duplicate indexes, one of the most pointless things you can do to a table...
2015-11-27
209 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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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