Moving Encrypted Data to Azure SQL Database
Learn how you can move encrypted data from on premises SQL Server to Azure SQL Database.
2019-11-26
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Azure SQL database
Very Hot Patches
Azure SQL Database can be patched without stopping the sqlsrvr.exe process. Quite a feat of engineering.
2019-10-08
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2019-08-15
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Cross Database Queries in Azure SQL Database
Cross database queries in Azure SQL Database aren't as straightforward as you might think, but they aren't hard to implement. Follow along to learn how to implement them.
2019-07-25
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Technology Flows Downstream
The technologies that we see in other data platform products sometimes flow to SQL Server.
2019-06-20
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2019-05-16
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Five Ways to Migrate Your On-Premises SQL Database to Azure
There are currently three deployment options for SQL Server Database on the cloud. Well, four, if you count Azure SQL Databases in elastic pool. But Azure SQL DB in...
2019-05-09
A short Azure SQL Database Edge explainer
On Thursday 2 May 2019, Microsoft announced a new edition of SQL Server, targeting Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices. That means SQL Server can now run almost anywhere....
The...
2019-05-06
2019-04-29
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Building Azure SQL Db with Terraform with Visual Studio Code
I have been using Terraform for the last week or so to create some infrastructure and decided to bring that knowledge back to a problem that I and others...
2019-04-17
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...
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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