February – Colorado SQL Events
SQL Meetings are training events for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Please note that...
2014-01-28
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Blog Posts
If You’re Not Doing Anything….
Hey… Pssst… Yeah, you there on the couch. Listen, if you’re not doing anything around lunchtime on February 6th, I...
2014-01-28
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Jan PASS Data Architecture VC presents Ike Ellis on Tips & Tricks
Please join the PASS Data Architecture virtual chapter on Thursday Jan 30th at noon central for SQL Server Tips and...
2014-01-28
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Know When it’s Good Enough
Here’s a newsflash: You may not thing so, but you are expensive. There’s no point in endless performance tuning. I love...
2014-01-28
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Movie Adaptations of Books
I’ve never written a novel or a movie script, but I’ve sure consumed a lot of both and enjoy both....
2014-01-28
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SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) – January 2014 update
The SSDT January 2014 release has been updated to support both SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance Update 1...
2014-01-28
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Applied SQL: LIKE ‘whatever’
Today let’s play around with the LIKE operator. Like, totally. Like, Introduction Like “determines whether a specific character string matches...
2014-01-27
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February 2014 – SQL Server Monthly Maintenance Checklist
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It’s a cold, cold day here in Minnesota. A great day for staying in and working on some in-home...
2014-01-27
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #68
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-27
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Myths and Misconceptions about Transaction Isolation Levels
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-27 (first published: 2014-01-21)
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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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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