How to convert to Base64 and backwards via T-SQL
I want to share my way to convert a string to Base64 and back. Let me note that presented method is not the fastest, but it has one important...
2015-09-30
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How to convert to Base64 and backwards via T-SQL
I want to share my way to convert a string to Base64 and back. Let me note that presented method...
2015-09-30
1,943 reads
Deployment Contributor Logger
Niche tool of the day
If you know what a deployment contributor is and have wanted to see what steps were...
2015-09-30
931 reads
Deployment Contributor Logger
Niche tool of the day If you know what a deployment contributor is and have wanted to see what steps...
2015-09-30
207 reads
Deployment Contributor Logger
Niche tool of the day If you know what a deployment contributor is and have wanted to see what steps...
2015-09-30
216 reads
SQL Data Generator–Masking Production Data
I learned a new trick with SQL Data Generator that I wasn’t aware of previously. I think this is a...
2015-09-30
1,005 reads
SQL Data Generator–Masking Production Data
I learned a new trick with SQL Data Generator that I wasn’t aware of previously. I think this is a...
2015-10-13 (first published: 2015-09-30)
4,173 reads
Deployment Contributor Logger
Niche tool of the day If you know what a deployment contributor is and have wanted to see what steps were in a plan and have got bored setting...
2015-09-30
12 reads
Session Action Metadata
Knowing how to access the deployed session metadata and the event metadata attached to that session, I will now begin the dive into how to find the same relevant...
2015-09-30
14 reads
Session Action Metadata
In a previous article, I introduced the core concept of Actions. In that article, I explained that an Action is...
2015-09-30
1,153 reads
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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