Restore Master From Backup
There are a few posts running around talking about restoring master from backup. Thomas LaRock has a fantastic "How To:...
2014-01-15
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Blog Posts
Sausage Making
For those who don’t know, I work for Red Gate Software. I’m not a developer, but I work directly for...
2014-01-15 (first published: 2014-01-08)
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Should You Run For the PASS Board? How Do You Decide?
Here are some of the questions I ask when someone is thinking about running for the Board:
Are you eligible? Read...
2014-01-15
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sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V4.0
These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each sp returns three data...
2014-01-15
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SQL Server Filtered Index Performance
Filtered Index – Database Performance
SQL Server 2012 includes filtered indexes and is a great feature for Business Intelligence and Reporting databases. ...
2014-01-15
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Two-Factor Authentication
Something you have and something you know – that’s the heart of two-factor, sometimes called multi-factor, authentication. RSA was for years...
2014-01-15 (first published: 2014-01-09)
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2014 Polar Plunge #SQLPlunge
In just a couple months… on March 1… I’m going to jump into a lake in Minnesota. Now it’s cold...
2014-01-14
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Flash sale – discount code for SQL Saturday Nashville Precon
Announcing a flash sale today from 10a-12p Central time for my upcoming SQL Saturday Nashvillepreconference training session ‘Virtualization for SQL...
2014-01-14
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Google Buys Nest
I was a bit sad to see that Google bought Nest. I like upstarts that see a problem and solve...
2014-01-14
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How to throttle your Storage with Resource Governor in SQL Server 2014
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-14
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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