Tuning Azure SQL Elastic Pools
The below image is a beautiful picture, now it could be worse. The red line and the green line could peak at the same time and for a very...
2019-04-11
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Blog Posts
Database Recovery Monitoring with XE
Database recovery (crash recovery) is a nerve wrenching situation under the wrong conditions. It can be as bad as a root canal and just as necessary to endure that...
2019-04-10
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Notes from SQLSaturday Tampa 2019
Late notes! Great signs at the event, all hand written on flip chart paper. Cheap and effective, the “different” nature of the signs made them easy to spot Rooms...
2019-04-10
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Power BI Now Has Keyboard Accessible Visual Interactions
The March 2019 release of Power BI Desktop has brought us keyboard accessible visual interactions. One of Power BI’s natural...
2019-04-10 (first published: 2019-03-21)
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SSIS and Data Quality Webcast
On Thursday the 2nd of May, I’ll be giving a webcast for MSSQLTips.com about data quality and SSIS. The abstract: SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been around for...
2019-04-10
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Uppercase All String Columns (and in a Single Query!)
(last updated: 2019-03-21 @ 15:00 EST / 2019-03-21 @ 19:00 UTC )
Intro
The other day, Steve Jones published a short post with a quick...
2019-04-10 (first published: 2019-03-20)
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Using a home-grown Azure Blob Storage solution for SQL Server backups
I’m here for the small organizations, the shops that can’t afford expensive solutions to maintain their environments. I’m here for them because that’s me: the one-person consultancy. I’ve built...
2019-04-10
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Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions
Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server needs to make sure data types match when performing operations that involve multiple pieces of data.
When the data types do not match,...
2019-04-09
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Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions
Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server needs to make sure data types match when performing operations that involve multiple pieces of data.
When the data types do not match,...
2019-04-09
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Delete activity in Azure Data Factory - Cleaning up your data files
(2019-Mar-20) File management may not be at the top of my list of priorities during data integration projects. I assume that...
2019-04-09 (first published: 2019-03-20)
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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
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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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