What about orphaned windows users?
I should start off by mentioning that this post is applicable to sql server versions 2012 and up. If you have an older version of sql server, the solution...
2019-07-09 (first published: 2019-06-26)
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday Albany NY 2019
I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #855 in Albany, NY on July 20, 2019. Join me at 2 PM in room LC05...
2019-07-08
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The Microsoft Power Platform
The Microsoft Power Platform consists of three products: Power BI, PowerApps, and Microsoft Flow. I find customers are confused on the use cases of these products and how they...
2019-07-08 (first published: 2019-06-25)
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Workload replay with WorkloadTools
In my last post, I described how to capture a workload to a file, in order to run a replay against your target environment at a later time. Well,...
2019-07-08 (first published: 2019-06-20)
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Last Week Reading (2019-07-07)
Hello, data eaters! Today, coming back from my friend by car, I was browsing a few posts on my cell (calmly – my wife was driving). At some point,...
2019-07-07
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Comparing Execution Plans
When you run a query twice, and get dramatically different run times, your first step can be to try to identify the differences in execution plans. For many that...
2019-07-05 (first published: 2019-06-19)
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Microsoft MVP #2
It is always a dark art trying to suss out why he/she is an MVP? Do they deserve it? What does it take? Why can’t I get it? The...
2019-07-05
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SQL Engine basics: Caching data
SQL Server engine does an excellent job to optimize query performance and it has different methods to achieve this goal, one of these methods is the data caching.Data caching...
2019-07-05
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Taxing Travels
It was a long weekend of travel for me not too long ago, starting at 4:30am on Friday and ending at 7:30pm Sunday night. This was for SQL Saturday...
2019-07-05
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Using the Announcement/News Part of SQLSaturday
One of the interesting but not often used features of the SQLSaturday tools is the announcement/news (in the admin tools, its Message Center | Announce News) to do mini-blog...
2019-07-05 (first published: 2019-06-15)
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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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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