Be Nice
Years ago when I was just out of the Marine Corps and found myself as the only IT guy in an...
2014-02-19
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Blog Posts
Data Scientist versus Data Architect
I recently had the following discussions with a number of data architects, in different communities, in particular (but not limited...
2014-02-19
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DBA Myths: An index on a bit column will never be used.
Not true. (Or I guess probably wouldn’t be posting about it would I?)
Probably the first thing I should point out...
2014-02-19 (first published: 2014-02-17)
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Free Mathematics Books – No really .. you want these!
Here is an alphabetical list of online mathematics books, textbooks, monographs, lecture notes, and other mathematics related documents freely available...
2014-02-19
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Getting a query plan
Query plans are an essential tool when doing performance tuning. When looking at a query plan you should be aware...
2014-02-19
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If You Plan to Publish A SQL Script–Some Suggestions
Nothing better than finding a script that does something you need done and often done better than what you’d put...
2014-02-19
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Lunch with someone new
I met up for lunch with a good friend and former coworker today, and among the topics of discussion was...
2014-02-19
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PASS Goals Published
Hopefully you got the email today from PASS containing these:
Volunteer GoalsProgram GoalsSQLSaturday GoalsReading them I’m first struck that we often...
2014-02-19
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Taxonomy of Data Scientists
The 10 pioneering data scientists listed here were identified as top data scientists in our previous article entitled data science...
2014-02-19
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T-SQL Tuesday #051: Bets and Results
The line for this months TSQL Tuesday required wagers be made concerning the risks and bets that have either been...
2014-02-19
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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...
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
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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