Enterprise wide Backup Audit
Enterprise wide Backup Audit that produces backup information in a csv format.
2010-08-06 (first published: 2009-11-10)
1,845 reads
Scripts
2010-08-05 (first published: 2009-11-25)
7,360 reads
Find botched constraints, idxs, fks
Shows awesome view of columns with constraints and indexes and foreign keys to spot errors fast.
2010-08-04 (first published: 2009-12-03)
1,483 reads
2010-07-27 (first published: 2010-07-09)
2,187 reads
Custom Logging in a transaction
Ever happened that your custom log got rolled back and you were left with nothing but an error_message()?
Try to log into a table variable.
2010-07-22 (first published: 2010-06-30)
1,177 reads
2010-07-20 (first published: 2010-06-23)
2,623 reads
2010-07-19 (first published: 2009-11-16)
2,581 reads
2010-07-15 (first published: 2010-06-16)
1,933 reads
Parsing / breaking character separated values in a table in one query
At times, we have situation to parse the character separated string in the table column.
2010-07-14 (first published: 2010-06-17)
2,244 reads
2010-07-08 (first published: 2010-06-17)
1,451 reads
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Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
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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