Weekly reading #7
It is MVP Summit time! I have not made it this year unfortunately. I hope all MVPs have a greate...
2019-03-18
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Blog Posts
Why to Avoid Using the Current Database Name in Object Definitions in SQL Server
I’ve recently published an article, “Why You Shouldn’t Hardcode the Current Database Name in Your Views, Functions, and Stored Procedures,” over on Simple Talk. In the article, I discuss:...
2019-03-18
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Writing a presentation 3: Entering the PowerPoint world
This is a series I’m writing as I prepare for SQL Saturday Chicago 2019. My session is called Performance tuning...
2019-03-18
319 reads
Kernel Migrator for SQL Server – Expert Product Review
Ease of use, accuracy, integrity, efficiency, and security are some characteristics which a good software should have, and when we speak of software products that focus on business users,...
2019-03-17
13 reads
Kernel Migrator for SQL Server – Expert Product Review
Ease of use, accuracy, integrity, efficiency, and security are some characteristics which a good software should have, and when we...
2019-03-17
435 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-03-17)
Hi there! I’m in Bellevue, WA today when finishing this post. My first MVP Summit and the second trip to...
2019-03-17
369 reads
Presenting with VS Code and Running Commands on Remote Hosts
In this blog post, I’m going to show you how to use VS Code and Azure Data Studio for presentations where you need to execute local code on remote...
2019-03-17
16 reads
Presenting with VS Code and Running Commands on Remote Hosts
In this blog post, I’m going to show you how to use VS Code and Azure Data Studio for presentations...
2019-03-17
344 reads
Cruel Joke: Prevent SQL Server From Starting, and With (Almost) No Indication Why
(last updated: 2019-03-07 @ 15:40 EST / 2019-03-07 @ 20:40 UTC )
I ran across something the other day that I thought would be...
2019-03-15 (first published: 2019-03-01)
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SQL Homework – March 2019 – Reconfigure tempdb
You’ve heard of tempdb right? It’s one of the system databases. All of the system databases are important but poor...
2019-03-15 (first published: 2019-03-04)
2,423 reads
Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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...
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