OldSQL
Support for SQL Server 2005 expires in April. Should you care? Steve Jones thinks it might not be a big deal for many people.
February 2011 Version of SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries
Wow, it is already February 2011, so here are the February 2011 versions of the SQL Server 2005 Diagnostic Information...
From Zero to SSIS in 5 Days
Learn Integration Services from SSIS expert and MVP, Andy Leonard in March. This 5 day class will be held on Mar 21-25, 2011 in Farmville, Virginia.
SQL Azure - Creating backups and copies of your databases
As a DBA you always followed a practice to back up your database (or take a snapshot of your database) before making any changes so that you can revert to your old database state if something goes wrong. Also to setup a development or test environment you use a backup of your database and restore it in the respective environment. If you are moving to SQL Azure, what would you do in these cases as backup / restore and database snapshots are not supported as of now?
Calling SQL Server With A BlackBerry Phone
An interesting tutorial for linking SQL Server to a Blackberry device and viewing images.
Stairway to SQL Server Reporting Services
A series from MVP Jessica Moss designed to help you understand Reporting Services and begin building reports.
You Should Know
Are there things you should know? It seems that we quite often find that others in our profession don't understand the simple things we assume they do. Steve Jones talks about one item in particular: staging servers.
Five DMV Queries That Will Make You a Superhero in 2011!
Way back in January, 2008, I wrote a blog post called “Five DMV Queries That Will Make You A Superhero!”...
SEQUENCE in SQL Server 2011
SEQUENCE is a core new feature of SQL Server 2011 (Denali). It is a more performant, flexible alternative to the INDENTITY attribute. This article introduces sequence and demonstrates how to use it and its performance advantage.
Life Without Keyboards
The way we input data is changing with the advent of the iPad and tablets. Is that good or bad for the acquisition of data? Steve Jones has a few thoughts today.
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