SQLSaturday Orlando Planning Meeting on May 23, 2009
We'll be meeting at Chipotle in Altamonte Springs on May 23, 2009 at 11:30 am to discuss plans for the...
2009-05-19
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Denver SQL Server User's Group
I'm planning on attending the Thur meeting of the Denver SQL Server Users's Group this Thursday, May 21, 2009. If...
2009-05-19
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Sometimes, code comments are informative and helpful
... and other times, they are stop-you-in-your-tracks funny. Here's an example of the latter:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/2009/04/21/funniest-code-comment-ever.aspx
2009-05-19
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Sick? Stay home!
Yesterday I did something I wouldn't have thought of doing a year ago: I stayed home. When I woke up,...
2009-05-19
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DBA's Delight
Tto the beat of “Rapper’s Delight”
“Now what you hear is not a parse
I'm rapping to the code
'cause me, my tweeps,...
2009-05-19
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Transaction isolation level
Transaction isolation level:1. Uncommitted Read (NoLock)2. Committed Read (blocking)3. Repeatable Read (phantom)4. Snapshot (no blocking)5. Serializable (no blocking)Dirty Read:(DR)Non Repeatable Read:(NRR)Phantom:(P)Great...
2009-05-19
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Finding a New Laptop Bag
For the past couple years I've been using a Targus (I think the model 300 right now) and they've been...
2009-05-18
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TechEd 2009 Recap
Keynote speaker, Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President of Windows Business at Microsoft.
TechEd 2009 was started with a keynote presentation from...
2009-05-18
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Microsoft Offers User Groups Direct Support
If you are a leader of a Microsoft-related user’s group, and you haven’t done so already, you will want to...
2009-05-18
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Sign Up to Be Notified When SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP Release is Available
If you want to be the first on your block to see the CTP (Community Technology Preview) of SQL Server...
2009-05-18
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Blogs
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
Forums
Stored Procedures for Server-Level Object and Column Search
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Databricks Genie Spaces for SQL Analysts: Natural Language Querying Without Leaving Your Data Platform
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The Costs of Multiple Platforms
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
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') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers