Ways to access data in ADLS Gen2
With data lakes becoming popular, and Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 being used for many of them, a common question I am asked about is “How can I...
2019-09-16
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Blog Posts
Whitespace, Letter Case, and Other Things That Prevent Plan Reuse
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. Last week’s post briefly mentioned that SQL server may not reuse a query plan from cache if there is a small difference in whitespace....
2019-09-16 (first published: 2019-09-03)
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Restoring Backups from Azure Blob with dbatools
Recently I needed to write a PowerShell script that could build a backup set from a collection of backups stored in Azure Blob Storage without any backup history available...
2019-09-15
57 reads
Restoring Backups from Azure Blob with dbatools
Recently I needed to write a PowerShell script that could build a backup set from a collection of backups stored in Azure Blob Storage without any backup history available...
2019-09-15
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Good to see you at Houston Tech Fest 2019!
It was awesome to see a great crowd at the triumphant return of Houston Tech Fest 2019. This year's event was hosted at the beautiful Microsoft Office in Houston....
2019-09-14
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Using kubectl logs to read the SQL Server Error Log in Kubernetes
When working with SQL Server running containers the Error Log is written to standard out. Kubernetes will expose that information to you via kubectl. Let’s check out how it...
2019-09-14
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Using kubectl logs to read the SQL Server Error Log in Kubernetes
When working with SQL Server running containers the Error Log is written to standard out. Kubernetes will expose that information to you via kubectl. Let’s check out how it...
2019-09-14
269 reads
Using kubectl logs to read the SQL Server Error Log in Kubernetes
When working with SQL Server running containers the Error Log is written to standard out. Kubernetes will expose that information to you via kubectl. Let’s check out how it...
2019-09-14
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Moving to Azure SQL Database Serverless
In a previous post, I discussed the public preview of Azure SQL Database Serverless. This is a newer product released from Microsoft for the Azure ecosystem. Moving to this...
2019-09-13 (first published: 2019-08-30)
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New Pluralsight Course – Managing Kubernetes Controllers and Deployments
My new course “Managing Kubernetes Controllers and Deployments” in now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in go here! This course offers practical tips from my...
2019-09-13
13 reads
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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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