Welcome To 2014
A quiet and rainy day here in Orlando today. Not my favorite weather, but good for thinking, mostly about what...
2014-01-02
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Blog Posts
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million...
2014-01-01
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Answer - Objective Question (Number of non clustered indexes possible on a Table in SQL Server 2008R2)
Question :-
How many non clustered indexes are possible in a table in SQL Server 2008R2
1) 1
2) 249
3) 999 (Correct answer)
4)...
2014-01-01
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Answer - Question of the Week - 28/12/2013 - Question 2
Question:- Suppose we have a table named tbl_charactername have only one column say "charactername".It contains 10 rows. First 5 rows contains...
2014-01-01
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Day 8 – Ring in The New
This is the eighth 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...
2014-01-01
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Day 8 – Ring in The New
This is the eighth installment in the 12 day series for SQL tidbits during this holiday season.
Previous articles in this...
2014-01-01
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Final Giveaway And Some Stats
Today I'm honored to give the final prize in a month of free giveaways here, the book; Professional SQL Server 2012...
2014-01-01
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Goodbye, 2013
For me, 2013 was one of the most interesting and busy years of my life. It was a good year...
2014-01-01
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Happy new year!
Happy New Years! It’s the first day of the year and it’s a day known for setting goals. I had...
2014-01-01
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MDX #36 – Many thanks to the reviewers
In this blog, I’d like to give special thanks to the people below who have taken time to write reviews...
2014-01-01
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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