Bucket List Data
This Friday Steve Jones is looking to see what data you're tracking about your life.
ETL Performance Auditing - Part 3: Auditing Data Warehouse Phase
Easy way to setup a comprehensive ETL Performance auditing Solution no matter how complicated your ETL setup.
Overcoming the OPENQUERY Record Limit for AD
Sometimes you have to pull more than 50,000 records. A script to do that inside the 1000 record limit.
Configuring Critical SQL Server Alerts
What do you do when you want to receive critical server health alerts?
Double Up During Trips
When you develop software, it pays to write efficient code. However it doesn't seem that many companies truly believe this as they aren't always investing in their staff.
Database Configuration Management for SQL Server
It is not just the rapid and painless testing, deployment and update of databases that requires care in the retention and management of configuration information. Configuration information is also essential for audit, resilience, and support. The range of documentation varies widely with the database and its setting, but the underlying principles remain the same. Without appropriate configuration management, automation is likely to be futile.
Data Mining Part 20: Excel and Data Mining,accuracy, forecasting
In the lesson 18 and 19 we worked with Data Mining Models.
In this new chapter we will work with more algorithms and show how to test the accuracy of the model.
Data Mining Part 20: Excel and Data Mining,accuracy, forecasting
In the lesson 18 and 19 we worked with Data Mining Models.
In this new chapter we will work with more algorithms and show how to test the accuracy of the model.
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