Powershell in a Month Day 18–Variables
This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in...
2014-02-28
1,455 reads
Blog Posts
Reblog: February 21 to February 27
Photo credit – Mike Lynch
A good cure to a creepy doll is a good old post that is still useful. In...
2014-02-28
1,460 reads
Upcoming Webinar - Introduction to Power BI
Come join me for this webinar on 3/13/2014 at 11:00 AM EST
Introduction to Power BI
The future of Business Intelligence has...
2014-02-28
1,354 reads
Webinar Q&A: New BI Features in SharePoint 2013
I recently presented a free webinar for Pragmatic Works Free Training on the T’s about new Business Intelligence features in...
2014-02-28
1,783 reads
Why wait statistics are important and how you can start collecting them now!
Why wait statistics are important and how you can start collecting them now!
Wait statistics have always been a very important...
2014-02-28
1,385 reads
Challenges with Downgrading TFS 2010 from SQL Enterprise to SQL Standard Edition
I recently had the challenge of migrating an installation of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 from a shared SQL Server...
2014-02-27 (first published: 2014-02-24)
2,901 reads
Data Architecture Virtual Group - Whiteboard Data Architecture Presentation
Thanks to all 130+ folks who joined, suffered my jokes and handwriting, and asked fantastic questions during my presentation to the...
2014-02-27
1,307 reads
Let’s Talk Query Tuning
I spend quite a bit of time writing about query tuning on this blog. I’ve written (re-written and am actively...
2014-02-27
1,285 reads
PowerShell – SSRS Inventory – Automatic – Excel File – EMAIL
Inventory is a vital information,whether you’re a consultant or an in-house DBA, you need to have a reliable inventory of...
2014-02-27
2,051 reads
Security #Datachat on Twitter Tonight
Tonight, at 9 PM Eastern, I’ll be participating in a #datachat on SQL Server security. It’s sponsored by Confio (now...
2014-02-27
985 reads
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...
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item OUTER APPLY Fundamentals: Part 2
Building Great Software
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Building Great Software
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