I can connect to my instance locally but not remotely
Every now and again (today for example) I’ll get a call that one of our SQL Server instances is down. ...
2012-10-23
1,272 reads
SQLStudies
fn_OBJECT_TYPE
I recently started using OBJECT_NAME, OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME and OBJECT_ID functions; unfortunately I really could have used OBJECT_TYPE but it doesn’t exist...
2012-10-19
1,258 reads
A review of SQL Interoperability / Joes 2 Pros Volume 5 by Rick A Morelan
I recently passed my MCTS 2008 Development (70-433). Yay me! That made my 3rd 2008 certification. This one was probably the...
2012-10-15
1,858 reads
Multiple CTEs
Multiple CTEs
It’s somewhat obscure in BOL and I wasn’t able to find any examples but it turns out you can...
2012-10-11 (first published: 2012-10-09)
4,590 reads
Active flag on the TCP/IP Properties page of SQL Server Configuration Manager
I’ve been unable to connect to a server via one of its aliases for about a week. When I looked...
2012-10-05
2,021 reads
When I get stumped I ….
I work with a reasonably large team of DBAs. There are 9 of us and we support not only 70+...
2012-10-02
1,207 reads
DBMail on a cluster
I’ve always found clusters a pain in the neck. For my latest pain I just spent the last 2 days...
2012-09-26
636 reads
Using a TVP instead of Dynamic SQL to pass a list into a SP
A couple of days ago I read Steve Jones’ blog on creating a user defined table type. This reminded me...
2012-09-25
1,191 reads
Funny results from OPTIMIZE FOR AD HOC WORKLOADS
I recently turned on OPTIMIZE FOR AD HOC WORKLOADS for the first time on one of my servers. When I...
2012-09-18
1,376 reads
EXECUTE AS USER = ‘Somebody else’
As a database administrator I get lots of security requests. “Please grant me read authority on this table, write on that table,...
2012-09-10
750 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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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