2025-08-25 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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Storage
The State of Data Growth
Data continues to grow at incredible rates. That's good for those of us that make a living with data.
2021-09-11
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Storage 101: Cloud Storage
Throughout this series, Roberts Sheldon has discussed a range of storage-related topics, some of which he mentions only briefly. One of those is cloud storage, which now plays a vital role in today’s data management strategies. Organizations of all types and sizes now employ cloud storage to varying degrees, either to supplement their on-premises systems or to handle the bulk of their data. Because cloud storage has become so pervasive, this article focuses exclusively on that topic, describing what it is, how it works, and its benefits and challenges.
2020-07-10
Storage 101: Modern Storage Technologies
In this article of the series, Robert Sheldon discuses emerging trends in storage like virtual SANs, intelligent storage, computational storage and storage-class memory.
2020-06-05
Storage 101: Welcome to the Wonderful World of Storage
Understanding all the storage options available to...
2019-12-30
All flash vs adaptive flash storage - which is right for my organisation?
Many data professionals might not worry about hardware, but someone needs to watch for changes and improvements in technology. Learn about how flash storage technology has changed and how this might be useful if you still need to build a fast database server.
2019-06-25
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Storage - A meeting of minds
Even if you are not an infrastructure guy a good grasp of storage basics will stand you in good stead
2012-07-16
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2009-08-18
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2008-04-09
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Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
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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