100 Years Ago, What Would You Be?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren asking what you might have done if you lived in the past.
An Example of Test-Driven Development
Developing a database can be an trying experience, and it's ways good to see how someone else builds a design. In this new article, MVP Andy Leonard shows us how to build a database using test-driven development for a weather database.
How to Import, Browse And Export Master Data Services' Data
Learn how to import data to Master Data Services (MDS) using Master Data Manager Portal UI to enter data manually or how to automate the import process by staging data into three different MDS staging tables.
SQL Server Connectivity Survey from Microsoft
A survey is available from the connectivity team at Microsoft that deals with ADO, ODBC, JDBC and more. Take the survey and help determine what is important for SQL Server.
Survey: what is the highest wait on your system?
SQL Server guru Paul Randal is conducting a short survey on wait states. Add your vote to the tally.
Worldwide Online TechDay/2010
Organized by Microsoft Brazilian Technical Community and relying on renowned international speakers, Worldwide Online TechDay/2010 promises to be the biggest technological online event ever seen. Oct 30, 2010
Protect the Excel files generated by SSIS package-Part I
It is not only the data within the database that requires protection but any report generated using SQL Server needs to be protected before being mailed
The Growth of Professional Development
Steve Jones talks about the more formal effort that it seems many people are placing to grow their careers.
SQL Rally: One Day on Query Performance Tuning
The SQLRally, a new PASS initiative taking place in the spring, is going to be a community driven event. This...
SQL Server Email Alerts Notifications
This article details a creating a more flexible and user friendly email alerts system.
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