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Blog Posts
Office 365 technology – What powers Power BI in Office 365? #0365 #powerbi
Power BI for Office 365 is a new self-service business intelligence (BI) offering enabling businesses to gain insights from their...
2014-02-11
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Review: Tell Me How I’m Doing
I found Tell Me How I’m Doing by Richard L. Williams at the local library. It’s a book about giving...
2014-02-11
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Risking Health, Life and Family
Since announcing the topic last week for T-SQL Tuesday, I have thought about many different possibilities for my post. All...
2014-02-11
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Risking Health, Life and Family
Since announcing the topic last week for T-SQL Tuesday, I have thought about many different possibilities for my post. All of them would have been really good examples. The...
2014-02-11
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Scalar functions can be the hidden boogie man
Ran across a comment the other day that scalar functions prohibit parallelism for a query when included. I thought it...
2014-02-11
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Should I learn PowerPivot yet?
Rob’s got a good post called What is Power Pivot’s #1 Competitor? which has some great comments, as well as...
2014-02-11
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SQL Server – Using Tools to Analyze Query Performance
Here is the session I gave for the techies at Microsoft about in-built tools available in SQL Server to analyze...
2014-02-11
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The Genealogy of Baseball Teams
The Genealogy of Baseball Teams chronicles the origin and evolution of baseball teams from every major league from the inception...
2014-02-11
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Blogs
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...
A Guatemalan's Guide to Drinking Coffee Properly
My mugI grew up surrounded by coffee farms in Guatemala and somehow spent most...
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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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