Watch the Growth of Walmart and Sam’s Club Across America #bigdata
This is pretty amazing. After 1970 the grow rate is astronomical for Walmart. You have got to watch this. Pretty...
2014-02-07
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Blog Posts
What Drives Microsoft’s Data Platform Vision?
FEATURED POST BY: Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice President, The Data Platform Group, Microsoft Corporation
If you follow Microsoft’s data platform work,...
2014-02-07
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24 Hours of PASS: Business Analytics Edition videos online
On February 5, 2014 business intelligence experts took to the virtual stage for the 24 Hours of PASS: Business Analytics Edition to...
2014-02-06
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2014-02-06
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Murder in Richmond
I am about to set sail on a new venture with my next official whistle stop. This year has been plenty full of whistle stops and I plan on...
2014-02-06
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Murder in Richmond
I am about to set sail on a new venture with my next official whistle stop. This year has been...
2014-02-06
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Rollback DBCC CHECKDB REPAIR !
I learned something new today while I was listening to one of the courses on corruption authored by the master,...
2014-02-06
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for February 2014
I improved the file-level latency query this month and made some other small improvements to a few other queries. Rather...
2014-02-06
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Thank You!
I am humbled and honored (and more than a little horrified) to be on this list of the Best of...
2014-02-06
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Virtual Lab – Design and Setup
This is part of a series where I set up a virtual lab for testing and misc work. The other...
2014-02-06
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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...
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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