One Time Passwords
Facebook has implemented a new security feature that Steve Jones thinks might work well for SQL Server as well.
Hierarchical Data Structure Virtualization in SQL
Data structure virtualization is the constructing of a data structure utilizing pieces or fragments from other data structures. This article demonstrates how Data structure virtualization can be performed in ANSI SQL utilizing hierarchical processing techniques to produce hierarchically structured virtualized output.
Swarms
Steve Jones talks about the workplace of the future, and a prediction from the Gartner Group that it will include swarms.
Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 5
In this next installment of the series on writing codeless applications, David Ziffer looks at the querying of data from the database.
November Question: What steps do you include in your database maintenance?
Database maintenance is a critical task for every DBA. For this month’s question, list the typical steps that you use...
Showplan Operator of the Week – SORT
Fabiano introduces another ShowPlan operator that is used to build a query plan, or perform an operation specified in the DML. Once again, Fabiano demonstrates why it is important to be aware of these operators when getting queries to perform well.
SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Convert Job Duration to Seconds
Welcome to the second post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...
Life Without a Net
Today we have a guest editorial from Rodney Landrum that talks about life in the past, when we couldn't look up everything on the Internet.
Merge error handling
Learn to use recursion to determine which row caused your merge statement to fail in this article.
Creating Analysis Services Partitions Using BIDS
As your database grows in size, Analysis Services cubes that use that database grow along with it. As such, one...
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