McIntosh MT5 #stayclassysandiego
Making or assembling electronics in America may be the next big trend in tech, but it’s nothing new for McIntosh....
2014-02-20
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Blog Posts
PowerShellGUI Tools – Disk,Memory and Process – Modules
I’ve created a script which gives details of Disk, Memory and Process and its represented graphically.
Here, the scripts are enclosed in...
2014-02-20
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Restoring Filegroup backups on another server, and why it won’t work…
We have 2 different SQL Servers which both have a copy of the AdventureWorks2012 database in Full recovery mode.
One of...
2014-02-20
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Restoring Filegroup backups on another server, and why it won't work...
We have 2 different SQL Servers which both have a copy of the AdventureWorks2012 database in Full recovery mode.
One...
2014-02-20
4,970 reads
Review: 2013 Land Rover LR4 Overland Journal Edition
The guys at Overland Journal know how to adventure, and adventure well. Their magazines can be found both on coffee...
2014-02-20
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Sometimes Cheaper Makes Sense / Mastering the Basics Always Does
It’s good to remember that the ideas and challenges of mastering a craft – any craft – have been around a while....
2014-02-20
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THE IIF statement – SQL has it at last.
TweetG’day All,
While I was writing my last blog post about the new SQL SERVER 2012 CHOOSE statement, it also came...
2014-02-20 (first published: 2014-02-18)
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The Strange Story About the MERGE that Killed the Cluster
I don’t like the MERGE statement. The syntax is weird, it’s tricky in terms of locks, and it has a...
2014-02-20
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Virtual Lab – Creating Differencing Disks
This is part of my series on building a virtual lab for use with SQL Server and Windows. You can...
2014-02-20
1,178 reads
6000 Companies Hiring #DataScientists
“Search engines (Google, Microsoft), social networks (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn), financial institutions, Amazon, Apple, eBay, the health care industry, engineering companies...
2014-02-19
454 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...
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I have a table that ends in ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]. I'm about to...
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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