Rochester – Welcome to the PASS MN Family
It started as a vision for expanding the reach of the Minnesota SQL Server User Group a year ago. At...
2014-01-23
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Blog Posts
Star Schema The Complete Reference – Review
I finished my first book of this year and here’s the review! After I finished the newest edition of Ralph...
2014-01-23
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Transactions: Who, What and Where
Recently we had a scenario where we had a handful of queries being blocked. Nothing unusual there but when I...
2014-01-23 (first published: 2014-01-20)
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Webcast Follow-Up: The Flavors of Non-Clustered Indexes
Earlier today, I presented a session for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s titled The Flavors of Non-Clustered Indexes. In the session,...
2014-01-23
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Cumulative Update # 8 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available!
The 8th cumulative update (CU8) for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available for download at the Microsoft...
2014-01-22
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Easy Backup History Review Script
I often use these scripts to check on the backups of all databases in an unfamiliar SQL Server instance, regardless...
2014-01-22
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Get SQL Server Physical Cores, Physical and Virtual CPUs, and Processor type information using Transact-SQL (T-SQL) script
Today, I received email from one of my blog follower asking if there is any DMV or SQL script, which...
2014-01-22
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Powershell in a Month Day 12 – A Practical Interlude
This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in a Month...
2014-01-22
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PowerShell Remote Commands
This is something I've found useful here recently when I had a server acting up. It's a simple way to...
2014-01-22
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Reliably Drop A Database With CLR Stored Procedure
After I read Greg Low’s post and my initial try, I kept on thinking that I need to come up...
2014-01-22 (first published: 2014-01-20)
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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