Spider-Man Homecoming Twitter Sentiment
Hello Dear Reader! This past Thursday night I took my son Zachary to see Spider-Man Homecoming, it was an amazing movie with a fantastic cast. Both of us are...
2017-07-10
11 reads
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Microsoft: 1 Year in, how's it going?
Hello Dear Reader, one year ago today it was leap year, February 29th 2016. So I'm a year older, the...
2017-03-10 (first published: 2017-03-01)
2,236 reads
Microsoft: 1 Year in, how's it going?
Hello Dear Reader, one year ago today it was leap year, February 29th 2016. So I'm a year older, the big four zero.... 40. A little wiser? Maybe. Despite...
2017-03-01
13 reads
How Do I Add an R Package to SQL Server from In-Database R?
Hello Dear Reader! I'm working on some really fun stuff with in-database R using SQL Server 2016.
I needed to...
2017-02-28
923 reads
How Do I Add an R Package to SQL Server from In-Database R?
Hello Dear Reader! I'm working on some really fun stuff with in-database R using SQL Server 2016. I needed to add a couple packages to my R engine so...
2017-02-28
19 reads
The High Availability Conversation Part 1: Introduction
Hello Dear Reader! Twitter is a fantastic tool if you use SQL Server. It is a great way to network,...
2017-02-07 (first published: 2017-02-03)
1,869 reads
The High Availability Conversation Part 1: Introduction
Hello Dear Reader! Twitter is a fantastic tool if you use SQL Server. It is a great way to network, find presentations, interact with experts, and #SQLHelp offers some...
2017-02-03
16 reads
Optimize For Unknown
Hello Dear Reader! It's been a while. I was working with a friend and we came across an interesting problem....
2016-12-21 (first published: 2016-12-05)
3,335 reads
Optimize For Unknown
Hello Dear Reader! It's been a while. I was working with a friend and we came across an interesting problem. They had a large amount of skewness/data skew. This...
2016-12-05
10 reads
SQL Azure, Hekaton, and Bob Dorr is Awesome
Hello Dear Reader! I had recently written a blog for the PFE blog, "How Many Tables Can I Have In...
2016-08-29
941 reads
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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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RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 [email protected] 8 [email protected]If 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