T-SQL Tuesday #165–Job Titles
This T-SQL Tuesday is from a new host, Josephine Bush, leader of the Boulder group just North of me. It’s an interesting invitation, asking what our job titles really...
2023-08-08
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Blog Posts
100 Days to the Data Community Summit Keynote
The start of learning at the 2023 PASS Data Community Summit is 100 days away. I checked. The Summit starts for many of us on Monday with precons or...
2023-08-07
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Azure DevOps: Enterprise Power BI report deployment with connections to Shared datasets
(2023-July-15) Let's say you have a collection of Power BI .pbix files stored in a git-based source control system (GitHub, Azure DevOps, or any other system). Among these files, one...
2023-08-07 (first published: 2023-07-15)
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Enhancements I’d Like to See in the Power BI Treemap Visual
I recently created a treemap in Power BI for a Workout Wednesday challenge. Originally, I had set out to make a different treemap, but I ran into some limitations...
2023-08-07 (first published: 2023-07-14)
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A New Word: Idlewild
idlewild – adj. feeling grateful to be stranded in a place where you can’t do much of anything, which temporarily alleviates the burden of being able to do anything...
2023-08-04
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Altering the Default Schema for a User
I had to test something for a customer, and as a part of this there as a need to have a different default schema for a user. I wrote...
2023-08-04 (first published: 2023-07-19)
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Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouse vs Warehouse video
Since Microsoft Fabric became available, I blogged about it and have an introduction video on Fabric that you can view here. I wanted to follow up with a short 30-minute video...
2023-08-04 (first published: 2023-07-18)
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Things I Carry in My Travel Bag
A friend asked me for some travel tips and ideas recently. One of their questions was on what types of things do I actually carry on the road, both...
2023-08-03
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Disable Activity is Finally Available in Azure Data Factory!
Since I first used Azure Data Factory, I looked for the 'disable' option on an activity, and it wasn't there! I quickly went to the ideas...
2023-08-02
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How do I tell if a user is orphaned or actually created without a login?
One of the wonderful things about blogging is the ability to make notes for future me. Which is basically what ... Continue reading
2023-08-02 (first published: 2023-07-18)
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Blogs
Excellent article on securing msdb
By Brian Kelley
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's...
T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many...
When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than...
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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