SQLServerDBA News - 2011 Review for SQLServerDBA
2011 was a great year on a personal and professional level
1) Completed the Brighton Marathon in 4hrs 36 secs
2) Blogged...
2011-12-31
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- Interests: Performance Tuning Database Servers, Running and Coffee
Top 10 SQL Server Posts for 2011
2011 is nearly over. It’s time to list the Top 10 viewed SQLServer-DBA.com posts for the year , based on Views.
System...
2011-12-24
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Routing OSPF and Network Team
After a server move to the failover Data Centre – a file copy between the two sites slowed down by 6x. ...
2011-12-21
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Nic Teaming
Network card teaming or NIC teaming are networking terms describing methods of combining multiple parallel network connections . The main purposes...
2011-12-14
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CPU Count
I document the CPU Count for SQL Server inventory management.
Using a powershell script , iterate through all the SQL Servers and...
2011-12-13
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SQL Traces and c2 auditing are different
Sometimes end users interchange the terms : C2 auditing and Traces.
They server different purposes.
c2 auditing records all attempts (successfull and...
2011-12-12
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SQL Database Status with sys.databases
I was creating a Powershell script for a SQL Server checkout procedure after a reboot , and used the state_desc column...
2011-12-09
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SQL Server Latency
Latency is the time delay measure in the system. SQL Server can only be as fast as the slowest component...
2011-12-07
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DATEADD and variables in SQL
To make the T-SQL function DATEADD more dynamic use variables. The example below , accepts an input parameter , in this case...
2011-12-06
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Enable XA transactions for SQL Server
An XA transaction is a global transaction usually covering multiple resources.
Use the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver to support the ...
2011-12-05
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Blogs
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...
A Guatemalan's Guide to Drinking Coffee Properly
My mugI grew up surrounded by coffee farms in Guatemala and somehow spent most...
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