PASS Summit 2013
Not much news came out of the PASS Summit 2013 from last week, but boy did I have a blast! I...
2013-10-29
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Blog Posts
Query Tuning in Dallas
Let’s have some fun.
This Friday, November 1, 2013, I’m putting on an all day seminar on query tuning. It’s set...
2013-10-29
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sp_BackupDatabases v1.2
I just posted a new version of sp_BackupDatabases. The biggest change is that the procedure now creates one-time SQL Agent...
2013-10-29
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SQL Server Training Events–November and December 2013
I’m in New York City this week delivering a SQL Server Virtualization and Consolidation 3 days course for Learning Tree....
2013-10-29
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Startup Weekend Orlando
Startup Weekend comes to Orlando on Nov 22-24, 2013. I haven’t been (and not sure I will make this one)...
2013-10-29
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The times they are a-changin’
This blog post will not be about Bob Dylan, but rather about some professional changes/challenges I’ve been up to lately.
The...
2013-10-29
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The times they are a-changin’
This blog post will not be about Bob Dylan, but rather about some professional changes/challenges I’ve been up to lately.
The...
2013-10-29
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What’s In My Utility Belt? Issue #1
Welcome to the first issue of what I hope will become a monthly series called “What’s In My Utility Belt?”....
2013-10-29
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Change in SQL 2012 SSMS grid output behavior
It’s one of those things that always aggravated me but not really enough to complain about. When you run a...
2013-10-28
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is count(1) faster than count(*)?
Recently I saw a post regarding the count(1) and count(*)
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/102474/
the post said "You know that doing COUNT(*) on a table with...
2013-10-28 (first published: 2013-10-20)
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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...
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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