Execution Plans: Statistics
Watch this week’s Statistics video on YouTube. Last week we looked at what execution plans are and how you can view them. This week I want to discuss what data...
2019-08-12 (first published: 2019-07-30)
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Blog Posts
Information Measurement with SQL Server Part 4.6: The Jaccard Distance and Its Relatives
By Steve Bolton …………Over the course of this inexpert exploration of the distance measures used for such data mining applications as clustering, we’ve gradually introduced a system of classification...
2019-08-12 (first published: 2019-07-29)
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sp_RestoreScript 1.5 Release
We’ve released sp_RestoreScript 1.5. This is only a minor release but adds the type of the backup file to the output. You can grab the latest version from our...
2019-08-12
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Fantasy Football - A League of Our Own - Want to Play?
It feels daft me saying the football season is only 9 days away, when in fact The Ashes cricket series is only starting today at Edgbaston. The Ashes are...
2019-08-09 (first published: 2019-08-01)
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Life Support 2008 – Audit Logons
Planning to upgrade/migrate requires a fair amount of prep work. Some of that prep work involves auditing your server for any users that may still be using the instance.
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2019-08-09 (first published: 2019-07-17)
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Salaries in Job Ads
Hiring at Basecamp is interesting. I caught this interview and think it’s a good look at a process most of us have gone through, but perhaps not thought about....
2019-08-09
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Validating Replication (All or Just One Article)
You may sometimes have reports or other processes that are dependent on transactional replication being current. If that is the case, you will probably need a mechanism to check...
2019-08-09
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 1
I have read quite a bit about “the death of Big Data” recently. To be
honest I’ve never liked the term Big Data. It has always skewed people’s
thinking...
2019-08-08
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 1
I have read quite a bit about “the death of Big Data” recently. To be
honest I’ve never liked the term Big Data. It has always skewed people’s
thinking...
2019-08-08
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 1
I have read quite a bit about “the death of Big Data” recently. To be
honest I’ve never liked the term Big Data. It has always skewed people’s
thinking...
2019-08-08
284 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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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