What’s the Best Path to Becoming a DBA?
I received a blog comment from a nice chap recently, concerning a subject that I’m often asked about and I wanted to share my thoughts with you here. I only...
2014-01-07
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What’s the Best Path to Becoming a DBA?
I received a blog comment from a nice chap recently, concerning a subject that I’m often asked about and I wanted...
2014-01-07
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Why Transaction Log Auto Growths are degrading your performance
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-07
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Answer - Objective Question (Which table is called Heap table in SQL Server)
Question:-
Which table is called Heap table in SQL Server.
1) Table without any indexes
2) Table without any clustered index (Correct...
2014-01-06
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Are CHECKSUMs being performed with a Compressed Backup?
Now, why in the world would I be asking a question like this?
Well, in BOL (BACKUP) is this little blurb:
CHECKSUM
Specifies...
2014-01-06 (first published: 2013-12-30)
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Day 12 – High CPU and Bloat in Distribution
This is the final installment in the 12 day series for SQL tidbits during this holiday season. Previous articles in this mini-series on quick tidbits: SQL Sat LV announcement...
2014-01-06
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Day 12 – High CPU and Bloat in Distribution
This is the final installment in the 12 day series for SQL tidbits during this holiday season.
Previous articles in this...
2014-01-06
636 reads
January 2014 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
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It’s the first Monday of 2014. Time for a new year and some resolutions to be a better DBA....
2014-01-06
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #65
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-01-06
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Looking Back At the Droid Razr Maxx
It’s been 18 or 19 months since I upgraded from the Droid X to the Maxx. The X was a...
2014-01-06
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My Social Media Rules
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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