Guidance on Moving Off of SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
July 9, 2019 will be here soon. With it comes the end of support, including security updates for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 unless you either...
2019-06-21
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Blog Posts
Specific String Pattern Magically Hidden From Step Output in SQL Agent History
Specific String Pattern Magically Hidden From Step Output in SQL Agent History. Who Knew?… Continue reading Specific String Pattern Magically Hidden From Step Output in SQL Agent History ?
2019-06-21
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The Data Platform is Important
I didn’t attend the //build/ conference this year and am slightly disappointed. Only slightly, since I was in these cities in May already and didn’t need another trip: London,...
2019-06-21 (first published: 2019-06-05)
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Why Security Through Obscurity Is Bad (Alone)
Security through (by) obscurity is where we try to protect an asset by hiding it. Anyone who has ever played the game Capture the Flag knows that a motivated...
2019-06-21 (first published: 2019-06-05)
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Benchmarking the VMware LSI Logic SAS Controller against the PVSCSI Controller
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2019-06-20 (first published: 2019-06-10)
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Common Data Model
The Common Data Model (CDM) is a shared data model that is a place to keep all common data to be shared between applications and data sources. Another way...
2019-06-20 (first published: 2019-06-06)
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dbatools One Point OH YEAH!
Announced at DataGrillen 2019 today, the amazing dbatools PowerShell module has officially released version 1.0. This is a tremendous milestone for the best Open Source project built for data...
2019-06-20
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dbatools One Point OH YEAH!
Announced at DataGrillen 2019 today, the amazing dbatools PowerShell module has officially released version 1.0. This is a tremendous milestone for the best Open Source project built for data...
2019-06-20
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Job History – Back to Basics
An important part of any DBAs job is to ensure database related jobs are running prim and proper. Sometimes that just doesn't happen. When jobs are being overlooked, it...
2019-06-20
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Just a Week to SQL Sat Pensacola
One of my favorite events, in a wonderful place to spend the weekend. I’ve been to Pensacola a few times (3?), including a couple times with my daughter. It’s...
2019-06-20
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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
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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