Kusto (KQL) for Azure SQL Audit
According to Rod Trent, Kusto is named after Jacques Cousteau. He says, “We are exploring the depths of our data” by searching and querying our Azure log data. His...
2024-01-03 (first published: 2023-12-26)
339 reads
SQLKitty
Extended Events in Azure Data Studio
I know I can use extended events (xevents) in Azure SQL DB when in SSMS, but I wanted to learn how to use them in Azure Data Studio (ADS)....
2023-12-20 (first published: 2023-11-30)
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Azure Workbooks
I’m saddened that the Workspace Summary is being deprecated in Log Analytics Workspace. I am trying to reproduce it in workbooks. While it isn’t an exact match, workbooks provide...
2023-12-13 (first published: 2023-11-29)
343 reads
Importing Flat Files into Azure SQL DB
Initially, I thought I would have to use sqlcmd because I’m on a Mac and don’t have SSMS. It turns out Azure Data Studio has a nifty way to...
2023-12-04 (first published: 2023-11-20)
618 reads
Part 1: The Modern Azure Data Warehouse – Choosing The Tech
With reports hitting the transactional databases, we were encountering performance issues. We needed to choose a path forward that would lighten the load on the prod database servers and...
2023-11-27 (first published: 2023-11-16)
633 reads
Help! My Docker SQL Instance Won’t Start!
One day, I shut down my computer, as I usually do nightly. This time, I shut it down on a Friday and turned it back on after a holiday...
2023-11-17 (first published: 2023-11-03)
203 reads
Setup Ola Index Maintenance with Azure Runbooks and Terraform
Yes, you still need to do some work to maintain indexes in Azure SQL Database. This post will walk you through setting up statistic updates and index maintenance using...
2023-11-06 (first published: 2023-10-19)
531 reads
Temporal Table Data Fixes
I found myself in a situation where I needed to modify temporal tables. We do this outside business hours because we don’t want clients changing data while versioning is...
2023-09-29 (first published: 2023-09-05)
623 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #165: Database Job Titles Roundup
This month I prompted bloggers to talk about what database job titles mean to them. Thank you to all who posted on this topic! Don’t worry; if you still...
2023-08-16 (first published: 2023-08-15)
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T-SQL Tuesday #165: What Do All The Database Job Titles Actually Mean?
It’s an honor to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. In case you don’t know the rules already, here is a recap of them: Earlier this year, when I was...
2023-08-01
153 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...
Forums
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