AlwaysOn Data Synchronization in Synchronous and Asynchronous Mode
When you are working on the AlwaysOn feature, it is crucial to understand how the AlwaysOn commit process works. This...
2018-08-15
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SQL Geek
Fastest Way to Find Row Count of All Tables From All Databases in SQL Server
There are many times you as DBA or Developer needs to get all row count from all tables or row...
2018-08-13
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Snapshot Agent Acquires schema modification (SCH-M) lock on all the articles of a publication
As the business requirement, It is very common to see a request for adding a new article or subscription to...
2018-08-22 (first published: 2018-08-06)
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SQL Server Enterprise Edition-Core VS Server+CAL – Demo on differences
In this blog, I am NOT going to discuss the SQL Server licensing model. If you are looking for that...
2018-08-03
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How to Change SQL Server License or Product Key?
Yesterday, I was doing SQL Server Database stress and benchmarking testing on the client side. When I started ramping-up more...
2018-08-02
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Have you ever wonder why Log Send Rate doesn’t show against Primary Replica on the AlwaysOn Dashboard?
Recently, I was working on the AlwaysOn Availability group issue where the log records were not moving from primary to...
2018-08-01
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Failed to join local availability replica to Availability Group – SQL Server error 41106 and 41158
When you configure SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group from management studio, it may fail with below error while joining secondary...
2018-07-31
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Disable or Turn-off SQL Server Telemetry Service
With SQL Server 2016, Microsoft is installing SQL Server Telemetry or CEIP (Customer Experience Improvement Program) Services by default. It...
2018-08-13 (first published: 2018-07-30)
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Adding File to Database in AlwaysOn Availability Group
When a database is part of AlwaysOn Availability Group, it means whatever commands we are executing on Primary replica database,...
2018-07-27
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Save the Connection String Parameters in SSMS – AlwaysOn
In the SQL Server AlwaysOn setup, whenever you are using a listener to connect to a secondary node, you have...
2018-08-10 (first published: 2018-07-26)
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Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
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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