2024-07-31 (first published: 2019-09-20)
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Grant Fritchey
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We Stink!
You know I have to say something about Crowdstrike. How could I not? Recovery for most people seems to be well in hand, but there are still places dealing with it. I was personally impacted because I was trying to fly home last Friday. While my airline and the airports I was flying through were […]
2024-07-27
149 reads
Only Capture Extended Events For a Given Time
It’s a great question. Let’s say you want to capture stored procedure completions. But, you only want to capture them between 3AM and 4AM. Can you do it? Output...
2024-07-19 (first published: 2024-07-01)
212 reads
Data Technology Learning Resources
Hey all! Quick one here. Tracy Boggiano, awesome person that she is, has put together an interesting collection of data over on GitHub. It’s titled DBA Resources, but it...
2024-07-12 (first published: 2024-06-27)
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Exploring Windows Function Execution Plans
There are quite a few different ways that you’re likely to see windows functions evidence themselves within your execution plan. Let’s take a look at one example. Windows Function...
2024-07-10 (first published: 2024-06-24)
280 reads
Use Your Voice
If you want more of a career and less of a job, one thing you will have to do is learn to use your voice. I mean this on...
2024-07-08
34 reads
Shout Your Successes
I was at a customer this week (sorry, can't share who). I spent the day talking about Redgate Monitor and how it can help with query tuning, server management, and estate management. Through the day, the data pros at the company were sharing how they were managing hundreds of servers and several thousand databases. They […]
2024-06-29
122 reads
Exploring Window Functions Execution Plans
There are quite a few different ways that you’re likely to see window functions evidence themselves within your execution plan. Let’s take a look at one example. Window Functions...
2024-06-24
49 reads
The Community is YOU, Not Any Organization
As I type this, we’re leaving behind spring, and all the amazing events that take place then, and entering the quiet time of summer. After that, we’ll go into...
2024-06-18
35 reads
Six Months!
Oh good gosh. Six months without a single blog post. Most important information: I’m not dead. Apologies. The issue is pretty simple. I’m getting old. Ha! Seriously though, I...
2024-06-17
39 reads
Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
Forums
Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option
I have a table that ends in ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]. I'm about to...
OUTER APPLY Fundamentals: Part 2
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Building Great Software
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Question of the Day
The Range of Customers
I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers