Happy New Year 2010
The first day of 2010 has Steve Jones blooper reel in addition to some well wishes.
Query Optimizer and Cartesian Products
In his continuing quest to bring a deeper understanding of Query Optimizer to the world at large, Fabiano Amorim takes a moment to point out a potential pitfall you may encounter. A light read, but one worth persuing.
A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
Pre Check List for 64 BIT SQL Server 2008 Cluster Installation
My tips for cluster installation with Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 on a 64 BIT server which is clustered.
A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
A New Beginning
The end of another year has an early Friday poll this week from Steve Jones. What are you looking to do in 2010?
Connection strings for SQL Server 2008
A set of different connection strings for using with different providers for SQL Server.
Fun With DBCC FREEPROCCACHE
Nearly anytime you see the command DBCC FREEPROCCACHE mentioned in a blog post, magazine article or book, you get some...
The Year in Review - 2009
Steve Jones looks back at 2009 and examines some of the predictions he made at the beginning of the year.
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