T-SQL Tuesday #51: Doubledown disaster
Jason Brimhall is hosting the 51st T-SQL Tuesday this month with “Place your bets!.
It’s always a gamble when buying a...
2014-02-14 (first published: 2014-02-11)
1,581 reads
Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #51: Is this a bet worth making?
On the second Tuesday of each month, the SQL Server universe all comes together to blog about a topic. Known...
2014-02-14 (first published: 2014-02-11)
1,814 reads
Why is Your SQL Server Slow? All-for-one and One-for-all
I have one more thing I want to talk about regarding the conversation I had recently with my friends and...
2014-02-14
1,115 reads
2014 #Cloud Services Trends
The major strides achieved in IT in 2013 are possibly a hint of what to expect in 2014. The leading...
2014-02-13
262 reads
Building a Virtual Lab with Hyper-V
I needed to get this one on Hyper-V, so I decided to document the process. I’ve put together a series...
2014-02-13
887 reads
FIGlet SQLCLR ASCII Font Art
If you haven’t heard of the name before, you must have seen what it does at some point. FIGlet which...
2014-02-13
1,756 reads
How Big Data Will Transform Coaching in the NBA #miamiheat #bigdata #nba
There’s a staggering amount of information an NBA coach would have to hold in his head to do his job...
2014-02-13 (first published: 2014-02-11)
1,659 reads
How to guarantee big ROI on big data #bigdata #ROI
I will start this article with an analogy:
Processing big data with small data technology is like building an 80-story skyscraper...
2014-02-13
247 reads
Master of Data Science: Analytics for the 21st Century #datascience #bigdata
The IIT Master of Data Science (MAS DS) is designed for bright, curious students with strong backgrounds in mathematics, computation,...
2014-02-13
361 reads
Melitta Coffee Brewer
I’ve been trying out the Melitta Coffee Brewer for a few weeks. Not much to it, it’s just a plastic...
2014-02-13
738 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