T-SQL for Performance and Accuracy – Vern Rabe: A preconference essential for anyone using SQL Server
SQL Saturday Preconference: February 9th, 2018 in Redmond, WA Do you think you write T-SQL queries that perform well? Think...
2018-01-11
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SQL Server BI Blog
Interview with Guy In A Cube’s Adam Saxton and Patrick Leblanc
Since starting the Guy In A Cube series over three years ago, Adam Saxton has become the front man for...
2017-12-20
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Enterprise Analysis Services Development: Interview with Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo
Between sessions at the PASS Summit, I had the privilege of interviewing Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo; SSAS Maestros and...
2017-12-03
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Power BI Hands-On Workshops in April, 2017
During the month of April, I will be delivering three full-day Power BI hands-On workshops. Each of these events will...
2017-03-02
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI 2017 Top 3 Rankings
This is a different spin on the top three vendor rankings visualized in Power BI. According to the placement of...
2017-02-17
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Professional SSRS 2016 Book Preview Posts
This page is a table of contents for for several new and forthcoming posts. I’m posting a series of excerpts...
2017-01-22
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Publish Power BI Reports to SSRS On-premise Preview Now Available
This just in from the Reporting Services product team: “Power BI reports in SQL Server Reporting Services: January 2017 Technical...
2017-01-17
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Power BI on-Premises Production Targeted for Mid 2017
NEWS FLASH: Power BI reports can be deployed to SQL Server Reporting Services web portal. The production-ready release is targeted...
2016-12-16
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Analysis Services and Power BI: Time-travel, Space-warping and Teleportation
As I visit businesses, consulting clients and training classes, to teach data reporting and analytics; there is a recurring conversation. ...
2016-12-28 (first published: 2016-12-10)
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Migrating reports between SSRS report servers simplified with new PowerShell commands
I recently needed to replicate all of the reports on one report server to a different server. I started downloading...
2016-12-04
1,445 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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Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
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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 [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