ASF 019: Simon Whiteley interview
As Chief Cloud Architect with Adatis Consulting, Simon Whiteley has been working with the Microsoft BI Stack for a decade,...
2019-02-22
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Blog Posts
Displaying the tags within the SQL Server docker repository
A while back Microsoft moved all their SQL images to their new registry mcr.microsoft.com which means that we can no...
2019-02-22
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Financial Advice for Techies
I’m not writing a post here on how to manage your money, but I will point you to Troy Hunt’s...
2019-02-22 (first published: 2019-02-01)
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SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services: The Basics Part 2
Note: I’ve been meaning to start a series on the basics of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The last time...
2019-02-22 (first published: 2019-02-01)
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Appearance: SQL Data Partners Podcast #161
Carlos Chacon (twitter) was kind enough to have me back on the SQL Data Partners Podcast to talk about my experiences with managing 8000 databases on a single instance...
2019-02-21
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Azure SQL Database Online Columnstore Unicorn and Rainbow Theory
As Microsoft states “online clustered columnstore index build enables you to optimize and compress your data with minimal downtime without...
2019-02-21
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Copy Data From On-Premise SQL Server To Azure Database Using Azure Data Factory
Let’s take a break from our SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services Basics Series and jump to Azure Data Factory (v2)....
2019-02-21
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How To Check How Far Behind Your SQL Server Log Shipping Secondary Is
Log shipping is one of the simplest and most bulletproof methods to get SQL Server to replicate data to a...
2019-02-21 (first published: 2019-01-31)
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Memory grants 7: DISTINCT (Distinct Sort)
The series is alive! It’s been a while since I last talked about memory grants. Don’t worry, I still care...
2019-02-21
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Modern Hardware with 64 CPUs
In today’s world, more often then not you might run into systems that have large beefy hardware. Hundreds of gigabytes...
2019-02-21 (first published: 2019-02-01)
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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...
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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