the game
So things are messed up. Bad. I mean, you lost a $2.7 Billion Dollar Secret Blimp or your team accidentally sent...
2015-10-30
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Tricks and Treats with XE
With the proximity to Halloween, it's not hard (knowing me) to figure out why I originally decided to terminate this series on the Eve of Halloween day. Join me...
2015-10-30
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Tricks and Treats with XE
Halloween is a great time of year. It is unfortunate that it is just one day of the year. That...
2015-10-30
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How to find blocked processes
Blocked processes are often a big problem for DBAs, because they’re difficult to monitor. We receive desperate calls saying “Everything...
2015-11-06 (first published: 2015-10-30)
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PASS 2015 Session Report – Understanding Real World Big Data Scenarios
PASS 2015 continues in Seattle, and today was my session at 1045am on Using Azure Machine Learning (ML) to Predict Seattle House Prices. The background and info on my session...
2015-10-30
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PASS 2015 Session Report – Understanding Real World Big Data Scenarios
PASS 2015 continues in Seattle, and today was my session at 1045am on Using Azure Machine Learning (ML) to Predict Seattle...
2015-10-30
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PASS Summit Key Note Day 2 – Recap
As I sit here in an offshoot of the convention center, I started reflecting back to this morning’s keynote for...
2015-10-29
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Columnstore Indexes – part 71 (“Change Data Capture, Change Tracking & Temporal”)
Continuation from the previous 70 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
In the SQL Server world of data...
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit Session Follow-up: The Plan Cache Whisperer
I’ve wrapped up my session at my first session at this year’s PASS Summit. My session this Thursday was The Plan...
2015-10-29
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Columnstore Indexes – part 70 (“Filtered Indexes in Action”)
Continuation from the previous 69 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is the continuation from...
2015-10-29
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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