Schedule Time To Review Your Passwords & Using a Password Manager
I use a password manager and it currently has more than 150 accounts in it, ranging from my checking account...
2014-01-17 (first published: 2014-01-10)
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Blog Posts
SSAS – Using the Euro or Pound currency Symbol in a measure Format String
If you have a set of measures and some of them are US dollars, some are Euros, and some are...
2014-01-17 (first published: 2014-01-13)
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[SQL Snacks Video] Introducing SQL Snacks! A healthy alternative to boring learning!
To snack lovers every where now you can consume SQL Learning the same way, in Snack Size! Introducing the new...
2014-01-16
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[SQL Snacks Video] Tail Log Backup and Recovery Demo
In December 2013 I presented at a SQL Saturday event in Washington DC. My presentation was about Backup and Recovery...
2014-01-16
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Breaking Complex Data into Visualizations that Tell a Story
How much do you enjoy reading pages and pages of detailed report data? A large amount of information presented in...
2014-01-16 (first published: 2014-01-09)
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How To Encourage Someone To Run For the PASS Board
Email them, call them, instant message them – pick your preferred method, and send a message that says “I think you’d...
2014-01-16
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Notes From the January 2014 MagicPass Meeting
I went 30 miles south last night for the first meeting of the year. Extra good night because I was...
2014-01-16
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PASS Business Analytics Conference discount code
I have previously blogged that I am presenting at the PASS Business Analytics Conference. If you are looking to learn more about...
2014-01-16
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Removing VS2012 ALL CAPS Menu Items
So by now this is no longer a new issue and not too difficult to find a fix for. However,...
2014-01-16
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sometimes, you have to piss people off
Just a quick note today on being effective.
For better or for worse, I was raised by parents who had me...
2014-01-16
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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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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