Friday Followup For January 24, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-01-24
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Blog Posts
More On The Target Breach
Over the past week there has been information finally coming out about how the Target breach occurred. This write up...
2014-01-24
942 reads
Moving WordPress to Windows Azure
For the past year or so I’ve hosted this blog at Godaddy using their web hosting service. It took a...
2014-01-24 (first published: 2014-01-21)
1,604 reads
Reblog: January 17 to January 23
Photo credit – Mike Lynch
A good cure to a creepy doll is a good old post that is still useful. In...
2014-01-24
738 reads
SSRS #73 – Marlon Ribunal and Mickey Stuewe’s New Book: Reporting Services 2012 Blueprints
The book’s link is here, SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Blueprints.
This book is a step-by-step, task-driven tutorial that goes straight...
2014-01-24
1,160 reads
Technology Alignment
Technology Alignment with Enterprise Architecture
A critical component in your Enterprise Architecture program is assuring your organization is leveraging the best...
2014-01-24
598 reads
Who Do You Rely On?
We tend to think of ourselves as self reliant. Sit and think for a second, how many people do you...
2014-01-24 (first published: 2014-01-20)
1,283 reads
Error : Property Size is not available for Database "[tempdb]"
Today when I clicked Properties of tempdb in SSMS, I got the error message below:
At first I thought the database...
2014-01-23
6,482 reads
Its the little things – Service Master Keys
In advance of the yearly licensing reconciliation with Microsoft at work, I have led the charge to ensure all of...
2014-01-23
623 reads
More on Password Managers
Last week I posted about reviewing passwords and mentioned using a password manager as part of that effort. DaniSQL noted...
2014-01-23
792 reads
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