October Question: Tell us about your favorite experience as a participant in the SQL Server community.
There is a thriving world-wide DBA community that offers many opportunties meet other DBAs, to learn from others, and to...
The One True Script
Phil Factor less-than-fond memories of the days of the One True Source Script. However, despite recent advances, he wonders just how much smoother team-based database development really is.
TSQL Challenge 40 - Convert string representation of numeric values fr
This challenge involves converting numeric values from binary format to hexadecimal format.
Women and Men - Same or Different?
Today we have a guest editorial from Wendy Pastick, co chair of the Women in Technology Virtual Chapter. Today Wendy takls about how men and women handle their careers.
Standardize data storage for geography spatial data type in SQL Server
Geography is one of the spatial data types introduced in SQL Server 2008. One of the characteristic of the geography data type is that it can accommodate any supported geometry based on any supported spatial reference system in the same field. So if the data that is stored in a column of geography data type is not standardized, it can be a very tedious and resource intensive task to figure out the geometry and spatial reference system associated with each value. To deal with this issue, we need to standardize the data stored in a field of that has the geography data type and in this tip we will look at how to deal with this issue.
The Lone Ranger And Data Integrity
Many IT Pros can relate to the the Lone Ranger. With the aid of but one trusty side kick, the...
Partitioning in SQL Server 2008
This article discusses about 'Partitioning'. In this detailed article, a particular emphasis is placed on the implementation of Partitioning in SQL Server.
PowerShell Version 2: What is new and why is it important?
It was a year ago that Microsoft shipped PowerShell 2. Jonathan Medd lists the top ten reasons why PowerShell 2 should be an important tool for your work
SQL Saturday 52 Recap
I spent this past weekend traveling to and attending SQL Saturday Colorado in the outskirts of Denver. This was the...
SQL Saturday#52 – Colorado Recap
This past weekend was the first SQL Saturday in Colorado, and it went very well. I think everyone enjoyed it,...
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