SQLDIY: Index Fragmentation Levels
Indexes, indexes, indexes my kingdom for an index! Well, something like that. Indexes are the single most important structure in...
2011-07-07
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Wesley Brown
- Interests: Collecting old computers
- Skills: I talk a lot.
Pliant Technology, Enterprise Flash Drives For Your SQL Server: Part 2
Adding In Others For Contrast
In our first part we introduced Pliant and the LS 300 drive. In part 2 we...
2011-07-06
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SQLDIY: Statistics Information Including Last Update
One of the most important aspects of keeping your system running well is updating and managing your statistics. Since the...
2011-07-05
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SQLDIY: Gathering A Data Dictionary
In this installment we are looking at assembling a basic data dictionary from the column level meta data stored in...
2011-07-01
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The Austin Fall Classic, SQLSaturday is Coming To Austin, TX
Come Get Your Learn On!
You heard right, on October 1st 2011 you need to be in Austin, TX. We have...
2011-06-30
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The Austin Fall Classic, SQLSaturday is Comming To Austin, TX
Come Get Your Learn On!
You heard right, on October 1st 2011 you need to be in Austin, TX. We have...
2011-06-30
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SQLDIY: Tracking Space Usage At the Index Level
I am a fan of information, the more the merrier. Anytime I’m tasked with tracking a production server over the...
2011-06-29
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Understanding Benchmarks
That Means What?
Vizzini: HE DIDN’T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means...
2011-06-29
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SQLDIY: Database Space Detail
Continuing to build up our data gathering library we shift our focus to tracking database file growth. This particular procedure...
2011-06-28
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SQLDIY: Tracking Wait Stats
One of the most important methodologies to date for troubleshooting problems with the SQL Server engine is examining the wait...
2011-06-27
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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...
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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