#tsql2sday – A Letter to My 20 Year-Old Self
Self, I am writing this to you in my mid 40s. I know when I was 20, I wasn’t thinking about 30, much less 40. Here’s some advice I’d...
2019-06-11
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Blog Posts
A letter to my 20 year-old self
This post is a part of #tsql2sday, a monthly community ritual where a topic is proposed by a community member and everyone is invited to join in. This month’s...
2019-06-11
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Azure Cosmos DB Local Emulator
Technically you do not have to create a cosmos DB and incur costs to test cosmos DB based applications, you could use the local emulator. This means that you...
2019-06-11
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Import Local SQL Server Database to Azure – Pick the Best Method
It is not unknown to the SQL users that some of the SQL Server versions have become outdated. This is the main reason why most of the SQL Server...
2019-06-11
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Import Local SQL Server Database to Azure – Pick the Best Method
It is not unknown to the SQL users that some of the SQL Server versions have become outdated. This is the main reason why most of the SQL Server...
2019-06-11
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Joker's Wild
This past weekend I had a blast presenting Joker's Wild with Erin Stellato (blog|twitter), Andy Mallon (blog|twitter), and Drew Furgiuele (blog|twitter).
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Table of contents:
What is...
2019-06-11
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Joker's Wild
This past weekend I had a blast presenting Joker's Wild with Erin Stellato (blog|twitter), Andy Mallon (blog|twitter), and Drew Furgiuele (blog|twitter).
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Table of contents:
What is...
2019-06-11
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New Azure “SQL Server settings” blade in the Azure Portal
I just noticed today that there is a new blade in the Azure portal when creating a new SQL Server virtual machine. I’ve been looking for an announcement regarding...
2019-06-11 (first published: 2019-05-24)
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Note to Self
Not only should you pay respect to those giving of their time, but you should spend a little time to also give back to the community. I will say...
2019-06-11
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Note to Self
Not only should you pay respect to those giving of their time, but you should spend a little time to also give back to the community. I will say...
2019-06-11
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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...
Forums
Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option
I have a table that ends in ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]. I'm about to...
OUTER APPLY Fundamentals: Part 2
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Building Great Software
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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