20 Twitter Accounts to Follow For the 2014 Winter Olympics
Wondering how to stay informed and entertained during the 2014 Winter Olympics? Here are 20 Twitter accounts to get you...
2014-02-04
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Blog Posts
Basic RegEx in SSMS
Have you ever had that moment where you have gone "Geez.. I wish I'd learnt this stuff ages ago" after...
2014-02-04 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Forcing a contractor to go W2
I have had a few questions like this: “I was wondering if there is a reason the vendor/broker/head hunter forces...
2014-02-04
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How a High School Teacher Is ‘Gamifying’ World News
A new game called Fantasy Geopolitics (think Fantasy Football meets Model United Nations) is radically changing the way high school...
2014-02-04
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How Big Data Changed Finance at Microsoft
Finance leaders today are faced with an interesting challenge. How can they consume and analyze the millions of rows of...
2014-02-04
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Inside the Statistics Histogram & Density Vector
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-02-04 (first published: 2014-01-28)
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Performance Tuning Pre-con and More at SQLSaturday 277 RVA
Join me for 2 days of fun and education at SQL Saturday #277 in Richmond, VA on March 21 and...
2014-02-04
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PowerShell – SQL Inventory – Automatic – Excel File – EMAIL
Inventory is a vital information,whether you’re a consultant or an in-house DBA, you need to have a reliable inventory of...
2014-02-04
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SQL Saturday #273 Tampa
The year of SQL Saturdays!
Tampa is the second SQL Saturday that I’ll be speaking at this year. For the...
2014-02-04
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SQL Saturday #273 Tampa
The year of SQL Saturdays!
Tampa is the second SQL Saturday that I’ll be speaking at this year. For the...
2014-02-04
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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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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