An Eventual Consistency Scam
Steve uncovers a scam that relies on data not being consistent between two systems.
2026-08-21
125 reads
Database
Does Management Care About the Database?
In the past, Steve hasn't often felt management considered databases to be important, but that is changing.
2023-11-08
193 reads
2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-02-01)
3,792 reads
2019-02-19
5,335 reads
Database Snapshot Use Case: Service Migration
In this article, we show how we used Database Snapshots as a rollbackup plan for a database migration from one data centre to another. Database Snapshots proved to be the best route since we sould not afford the time a backup/restore approach would take.
2020-08-28 (first published: 2018-12-11)
2,595 reads
Generic, parameterised, create DB script
A script to be used as part of development deployments where new databases are required, so as to provide standardisation.
2017-01-23 (first published: 2017-01-18)
487 reads
2016-11-30
1,236 reads
Database Backup Information Scripts
Scripts used to validate the backups information as below
1) Database Backups for all databases For Previous Week
2) Most Recent Database Backup for Each Database
3) Most Recent Database Backup for Each Database - Detailed
4) Databases Missing a Back-Up Within Past 24 Hours
2015-11-25 (first published: 2015-11-03)
1,779 reads
Figure out recovery mode for each database
It is anoying that someone created a new database and left its recovery mode in simple and it caused your backup jobs to fail.
2015-11-23 (first published: 2015-10-26)
678 reads
2012-07-25
2,742 reads
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Ten Years of PowerShell
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T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
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RegEx Functions II
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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