Breaking Into SQL Showbiz
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Matthew Velic (blog, Twitter) just asked this question on Twitter:
And really that’s...
2010-09-20
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Jen McCown
SELECT: If ON preceeds JOIN, then how….
I got some excellent questions from my 24HOP session yesterday, and when presenting the same session at NTSSUG last night. ...
2010-09-17
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T-8d till SQL Saturday #52 (CO)
SQL Saturday: All the COOL kids are doing it!
It’s only twelveeight days until SQL Saturday #52 in Colorado! I’ll be...
2010-09-17
583 reads
Know a young IT go-getter? Get her nominated!
Yesterday, I told our Groupies: I feel give-y today. Is there anything you’d like me to promote for you? Wendy...
2010-09-15
470 reads
New Hotness: sys.sql_modules
I’m still old school in many ways. And they’re not the ways that let you get away with wearing wayfarers, or...
2010-09-15
513 reads
Brief Intro to Indexes and INCLUDE – TSQL Tuesday #10!
Content rating: Beginner
This blog was originally posted on December 17, 2009. I’ve pulled it out of the closet for...
2010-09-14
669 reads
T-12d till SQL Saturday #52 (CO)
SQL Saturday: All the COOL kids are doing it!
It’s only twelve days until SQL Saturday #52 in Colorado! I’ll be...
2010-09-13
706 reads
Tip: Use System Views to Compare Column Datatypes
Let’s say that you have a staging table, that then loads to a destination table in the same database. If...
2010-09-13
534 reads
Tip: RESTORE FILELISTONLY / WITH MOVE
As we’ve seen in recent DBARant-able tales, not everyone is completely familiar with methods of restoring SQL backup files to...
2010-09-08
1,707 reads
SELECT, Deconstructed
Today let’s expand on the logical processing order of SELECT that I mentioned in last week’s N Things Worth Knowing...
2010-08-31
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Blogs
Build a C++ Pipeline with Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure ACR and Azure App Service
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Better Trigger Design: #SQLNewBlogger
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I had someone ask me about using triggers to detect changes in their tables....
SQL Server in the Cloud – Are DBAs Still Needed?
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Things your cloud vendor may not tell you Here’s a common theme I...
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Question of the Day
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