SQL Server – How to get last access/update time for a table
Modify date and create date for a table can be retrieved from sys.tables catalog view. When any structural changes are made the...
2014-03-11
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SQL Server – How to get last access/update time for a table
Modify date and create date for a table can be retrieved from sys.tables catalog view. When any structural changes are made the...
2014-03-11
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SQL Server – How to get last access/update time for a table
Modify date and create date for a table can be retrieved from sys.tables catalog view. When any structural changes are made the...
2014-03-11
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for March 2014
I made a couple of changes in the order of the queries this month and made some other small improvements...
2014-03-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #52 – Arguments
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday, this month hosted by Michael J Swart, our artistic DBA in the community. I love...
2014-03-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #52: Keep your head down!
It is T-SQL Tuesday again and this month we are taking the road less traveled. Michael J Swart (b/t) has...
2014-03-11
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Why worry about CXPACKET
Many people see CXPACKET at the top of their waits and start trying to fix it. I know this topic’s...
2014-03-11
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[SQL Snacks Video] The Basics of Joins
This is a special edition for SQL Snacks. It is one (of many hopefully) SQL Snacks that has been recorded...
2014-03-10
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Bad Ideas: Alert Storming
Fellow DBA: There are so many alerts! It takes me a long time to get through them all. How do...
2014-03-10
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Issue with sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats in SQL Server 2012
I’d be struggling to remember a week where I hadn’t run a query against the dmv sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats to find unused...
2014-03-10 (first published: 2014-02-27)
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
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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