Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing
Sigh… I just spent almost a full work day trying to come up with, what turned out to be a...
2010-10-20
4,525 reads
Grant Fritchey
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Be Prepared
Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey. The Boy Scouts motto is "be prepared" and most of you probably unconsciously follow that in your daily lives. Why is it that so many of us don't follow through on this same advice with our databases? Grant Fritchey gives a few examples of how you should "be prepared" for a database emergency.
2010-01-04
2,707 reads
Be Prepared
Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey. The Boy Scouts motto is "be prepared" and most of you probably unconsciously follow that in your daily lives. Why is it that so many of us don't follow through on this same advice with our databases? Grant Fritchey gives a few examples of how you should "be prepared" for a database emergency.
2010-01-04
2,109 reads
Be Prepared
Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey. The Boy Scouts motto is "be prepared" and most of you probably unconsciously follow that in your daily lives. Why is it that so many of us don't follow through on this same advice with our databases? Grant Fritchey gives a few examples of how you should "be prepared" for a database emergency.
2010-01-04
2,236 reads
Great DBAs in History
What great historical figures would make great DBAs? A guest editorial from Grant Fritchey examines the traits and characteristics we look for in this role and which famous people we might choose and why.
2009-10-14
111 reads
Ad Hoc Queries Don’t Reuse Execution Plans: Myth or Fact
Another frequently heard story is that stored procedures get and reuse execution plans, but ad hoc queries do not. A...
2009-10-07
3,203 reads
Don't Build a Monitoring System
Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
2009-09-14
892 reads
Don't Build a Monitoring System
Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
2009-09-14
633 reads
Don't Build a Monitoring System
Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
2009-09-14
640 reads
Review of the Maxpedition Aggressor Tactical Attache
Need a new laptop bag? MVP Grant Fritchey brings us a review of a large and versatile brief case that's a little different than the rest.
2009-07-24
1,411 reads
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What is Between?
I have a table of products in SQL Server 2022. There are sequential items in the table with ProductIDs of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * FROM dbo.Products WHERE ProductID BETWEEN 4 AND 7;See possible answers