2008-03-19 (first published: 2008-01-24)
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Scripts
Generating permutations - procedure
This procedure prepares a query for generating permutations of n-numbers set and executes it.
2008-03-18 (first published: 2008-02-04)
1,024 reads
2008-03-14 (first published: 2008-01-29)
1,288 reads
Trim Trailing Blanks in SQL Queries
Reformats the text output of queries to trim trailing blanks in wide varchar columns for easy copy-and-paste.
2008-03-10 (first published: 2008-01-09)
2,962 reads
Search for a specified GUID (or its part) in all databases (updated)
This procedure searches for the specified GUID (or its part) in all (or selected one) databases
2008-03-06 (first published: 2008-01-24)
997 reads
Db files size per directory
This procedure displays amount of disk space used by database per directories.
2008-02-29 (first published: 2008-01-14)
947 reads
Random varchars
This procedure generates a list of random varchars (8 charactes length, only letters - lower or upper case).
2008-02-28 (first published: 2008-01-14)
684 reads
2008-02-27 (first published: 2008-01-21)
1,072 reads
2008-02-25 (first published: 2008-01-15)
942 reads
Sorted views in 2005 and TOP clause
These examples show how You can circumvent the problem with not working TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY in views.
2008-02-22 (first published: 2008-01-22)
1,328 reads
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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