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My Simple Talk Experience from Dollywood to Dollywood
Read more: My Simple Talk Experience from Dollywood to DollywoodI sit here in Dollywood, at the same table where I had my first interview with Redgate, just over 3 years ago. It was a chilly April day, and I had to interview some of the Dollywood Hosts for an article for Dollywood (I was a Dollywood Insider at the time, though that program has…
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T-SQL Tuesday #188 – Growing the Data Community
Read more: T-SQL Tuesday #188 – Growing the Data CommunityWhen I saw this invitation from John Sterrett come through, it piqued my interest. Getting people to startparticipating in the community has always been an interesting challenge. Even getting people go just go to conferences and participate in the data community isn’t exactly simple. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I want…
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Cardinality and REGEXP_LIKE
Read more: Cardinality and REGEXP_LIKESo I was reading Brent Ozar’s post about Regular Expressions in SQL Server 2025 (T-SQL Has Regex in SQL Server 2025. Don’t Get Too Excited. – Brent Ozar Unlimited®) and why they work as they do, and in the comments, someone mentioned a couple of hints that should make it better. I couldn’t find much…
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Explore Your Limits, They Aren’t Static
Read more: Explore Your Limits, They Aren’t StaticThis was to be my post for Saturday, June 14’s Database Weekly. But I have moved on from Redgate and on to different things. Ironically a lot of the posts I had written lately were about changing jobs. For example What’s Your Price and What About Loyalty?, not to mention a forthcoming piece from Sheila Romans about using…
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SQL Server REGEXP_LIKE features augment, not replace, LIKE
Read more: SQL Server REGEXP_LIKE features augment, not replace, LIKESo I expect most people (like myself), before they learned anything about the new RegEx features of SQL Server 2025 (and the Azure SQL DB too), assumed they would include a direct replacement for LIKE. Filtering data on a pattern has always been an important need when querying string data. For the most part, LIKE…
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Scenic City Summit Roundup
Read more: Scenic City Summit RoundupContinuing my new tradition of recapping conferences I have attended or worked on, I just got back from Scenic City Summit 2025 (https://sceniccitysummit.com/) and this was a doozy of a conference for me. It was the last conference I organized sponsorship for as the editor of Simple Talk, one I spoke at, and it was…
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ChatGPT’s Attitude is interesting
Read more: ChatGPT’s Attitude is interestingI was trying to test out the RegEx capabilities in SQL Server 2025. I wanted to generate a really random, flexibly large set of data pretty quickly so I could just try to see if indexes are used ever with RegEx. So I asked ChatGPT, and then the fun kind of started. So, like any…
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New Blog Home
Read more: New Blog Home”It isn’t much yet, but it is home” – Me, 10 minutes ago. After so many years, I am starting a new blog on my own site. I started blogging over 25 years ago on Microsoft’s live blogging platform. After that, I moved to SQLBlog.com, and when that died, the the. editor of SimpleTalk.com pulled…
Hello,
I’m Louis
I have been at this database thing for a long long time, with no plans to stop.
This is my blog site, companion to drsql.org
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