Superfast Broadband – can be a drawn out slow and frustrating process
I’m writing this blog post to simply to vent some frustration. I live in Wales’ third largest city, Newport and...
2013-12-06
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Blog Posts
A quick hint – evaluating 2 tables in one IF BEGIN END block
Have you ever wanted to evaluate 2 tables in one IF BEGIN END block, I firstly wrote this:-
Which always evaluated...
2013-12-05
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Blocked processes: Quick Tips
Sometimes activity monitor just isn't fast enough. Maybe it's not telling you what a specific query is doing. Below is...
2013-12-05
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How To Get The TableDiff Utility
Tablediff is a command line utility that comes with SQL Server to compare the data and schema in two tables...
2013-12-05
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Myths and Misconceptions about Hekaton
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Over the...
2013-12-05 (first published: 2013-11-30)
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Power Query Preview November Update
As I mentioned in my previous post (see Power BI first impressions), Power Query is a great new tool and Microsoft...
2013-12-05
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Presentation Update: Change Data Capture (CDC) Made Easy With SSIS 2012
Come get your learn on with Pragmatic Works and myself! In January I’ll be dropping some knowledge about change data...
2013-12-05
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SQL Server Quickie #8 – Hash Indexes
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2013-12-05
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T-SQL Tuesday #49: Topic is … Wait for It …
Have you been waiting to hear about this month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic? Here’s the announcement, right here and right now....
2013-12-05
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Webcast Today: Surviving The First Week As The New DBA
Today at 3 pm EST I’m presenting Surviving The First Week As The New DBA. Some of the topics I’m...
2013-12-05
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Blogs
Excellent article on securing msdb
By Brian Kelley
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's...
T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many...
When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than...
Forums
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