Introducing Managed Backups in SQL Server 2014
Some of the new functionality of 2014 is straight forward, non-controversial and easily welcomed by the community. Think, updateable column...
2013-12-17
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Blog Posts
It's Dangerous to ISNUMERIC, Take This Try_Convert
There's an issue with some characters in T-SQL when validating numeric values out of raw varchar fields, and it can...
2013-12-17 (first published: 2013-12-12)
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Power Query Preview December Update
Microsoft keep turning out updates to Power Query. For December, some of the new features (download):
Connection to three more data...
2013-12-17
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Powershell in a Month– Day 4 and 5 – Providers
This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in...
2013-12-17
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 10
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 10, which is build 10.50.4297. This Cumulative Update...
2013-12-17
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for December 2013
I have made quite a few updates and improvements to this set of queries for December 2013. I have added...
2013-12-17
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Transactions: Rolling back a nested transaction
Transactions are great and wonderful things. They make sure that our work stays atomic, consistent, isolated and durable (yes ACID)....
2013-12-17
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Collecting Historical Wait Statistics
As a DBA, I'm sure you've heard many times to always check the sys.dm_os_wait_stats DMV to help diagnose performance issues...
2013-12-16 (first published: 2013-12-11)
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DBA JumpStart – A SQL Community Ebook for DBAs
If you could give a DBA just one piece of advice, what would it be?
I asked 20 successful and experienced...
2013-12-16 (first published: 2013-12-10)
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Forty Things You Didn’t Know About SQL Server
Last week I delivered a seminar at the Expert Days 2013 event by the name of 40 Things You Didn’t...
2013-12-16
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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...
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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