Happy New Year
Well, this is my last post this year - I know, there weren't too many of them anyway, but I plan to improve my frequency, promise
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I have a few days off and all of a sudden I got a flu or cold, felt pretty rubbish two days ago. I spent all day in bed yesterday, sleeping, playing with Rubik's Cube and reading a book - The Storage Engine 
. The effect of day in bed was that I couldn't sleep at night and my brain was plotting grand plans how to become rich and retire before end of 2010. Well, I didn't come up with anything you wouldn't know already so regarding this it was a wasted night. However, I came across idea of using regular expressions to parse some SQL queries to pick table names or columns in select statemets. I downloaded very cool regex designer and was playing with the idea for the whole day today. Call me a geek, but I think regular expressions are cool. It's a pity they are not natively implemented in SQL Server, but on the other hand it would encourage developers to do really heavy lifting on character data in the database - and DBAs would have yet another trouble to look after.
Anyway, happy New Year folks, let it be even better than the old one.