Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #67
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-20
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Blog Posts
Monitor availability groups and availability replicas status information using T-SQL
Just a quick blog post to share a query, which I wrote to monitor availability groups and replicas and the...
2014-01-20
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New Blog Series: Parent-Child Architecture in SSIS
I’m kicking off a new series of blog posts discussing the topic of parent-child architectures in SQL Server Integration Services....
2014-01-20
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NJSQL User Group Presents In-Memory OLTP for SQL Server
If your local to the NY/NJ area, please see tomorrow night's agenda for SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP feature! Microsoft...
2014-01-20
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Power BI Contest Entry Voting
You’ve watched my video (hopefully) now vote for it! In a previous post I wrote about my Power BI contest...
2014-01-20
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PowerShell – Program List – 32/64 Bit – Local/Remote Machies
This Powershell script list all the installed application on both 32 and 64 bit applications, particularly useful for people managing...
2014-01-20
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Powershell in a Month Day 11 – Filtering
This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in a Month...
2014-01-20
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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...
2014-01-20
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Schema-only Backups and Restores
I was reading the blog post Time for a Quick Rant by Grant Fritchey (blog|@GFritchey) about people who choose to...
2014-01-20
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SQL Server – Displaying line numbers in Query Editor – SSMS
You can enable line numbers to be displayed in SSMS Query Editor. This is extremely useful when working on a...
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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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