2010-09-08 (first published: 2010-09-02)
2,388 reads
Scripts
Just for fun
Do you need to take your mind off of the SQL mess you are dealing with? Try my funny words generator.
2010-09-03 (first published: 2010-08-27)
2,681 reads
Change the collation of Columns
This script changes the collation of columns to default database collation in all the tables
2010-09-02 (first published: 2010-09-01)
2,208 reads
Windows Group Membership Checker
A script to reveal which logins have access to your sql server via windows groups.
2010-09-01 (first published: 2010-08-26)
2,460 reads
Make string columns unicode compliant
Generates scripts to make text, ntext, varchar and char columns nvarchar/nchar
2010-08-30 (first published: 2010-08-26)
1,347 reads
2010-08-27 (first published: 2010-08-25)
3,710 reads
Get daylight savings time
After scouring the site, and googling until my fingers bled, I finally put together a function that will return the dates when daylight savings time began/ended since at least 1990.
2010-08-26 (first published: 2010-08-19)
2,024 reads
Object Explore
Summary information and metrics for any column in a given Table/View. Metrics include: number of records, distinct records, nulls, min, max, std, quartiles, kurtosis, skew, etc.
2010-08-24
72 reads
Using GO Repeat To Fill Tally Table
Fill a small Tally table with a 1 column primary key using GO keyword to repeat an insert.
2010-08-18 (first published: 2010-08-16)
1,567 reads
2010-08-16 (first published: 2010-03-05)
3,890 reads
Blogs
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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Smart AI Agents and Data Security
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RegEx Functions IV
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
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', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers