Big Data: Cash Cow or Horsemeat?
The big data revolution seems to have failed to materialise, and for good reason - it's really difficult.
Troubleshooting and Fixing SQL Server Page Level Corruption
Corrupt SQL Server databases are the worst nightmare of any SQL Server professional. In any environment, from small business to enterprise, the compromise of integrity and availability of the data can constitute a business emergency. This is especially the case in those organizations reliant on an OLTP data model, for a high-volume website. SQL Server database corruption and disruption of the transaction processing system can cause business repercussions such as large financial losses, a drop in reputation or customer retention, or contractual SLA problems with the service provider, if not managed in-house.
SQL Saturday #177 - Silicon Valley
The Bay area gets another SQL Saturday this weekend, on Feb 23, 2013. Come have a free day of SQL Server training.
SQL Saturday #177 - Silicon Valley
Don’t miss the Bay Area’s largest SQL Server event of the year! You can choose from sessions on SQL Server 2012, DBA, Development, Business Intelligence, and Big Data.
Stairway to Server-side Tracing - Level 1 - Overview of Tracing
The first part of our stairway series on SQL Trace examines the overview of this subsystem in SQL Server, it's architecture and the kind of information it returns.
Stairway to Server-side Tracing - Level 1 - Overview of Tracing
The first part of our stairway series on SQL Trace examines the overview of this subsystem in SQL Server, it's architecture and the kind of information it returns.
MDX Guide for SQL Folks: Part III - Advanced Analysis
Learn everything about MDX drawing only on your T-SQL knowledge in this series. Frank Banin continues talking about Calculated Members, Named Sets, and more in part III.
If you are using indexed views and MERGE, please read this!
Here is some information about an important MERGE “wrong results” bug, involving indexed views, that could be affecting the accuracy of your queries right now, and what options you have for working around the problem.
The Group Account
Our desktop OSes have evolved to support group accounts, but much of the ecosystems around them do not and many mobile and tablet devices do not. Why don't they?
SQL Server 2012: Time Marches On
Greg Larsen explores the new SQL Server 2012 date and time functions and shows you how to exploit these functions in new application code.
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
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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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