A Month of PowerShell – Day 5 (Scripting – Putting it together)
Welcome to Day 5 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-05
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A Discussion of SQL Server-Related Topics
Invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #39 – Can you shell what the PoSH is Cooking?
T-SQL Tuesday Party History
In case you’ve been hiding out in the desert, oblivious to all that goes on, there is...
2013-02-08 (first published: 2013-02-05)
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 4 (Scripting)
Welcome to Day 4 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-04
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 3 (Security)
Welcome to Day 3 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-03
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 2 (Variables and Operators)
Welcome to Day 2 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-02
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 1 (Getting Started)
Welcome to Day 1 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. PowerShell is one of those things that I know...
2013-02-01
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Adding new data files to a log shipped database
I ran into an interesting problem recently. There is a 4TB database that is log shipped to a DR site,...
2013-01-28 (first published: 2013-01-21)
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T-SQL Tuesday #38 – Standing Firm
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Jason Brimhall. Being as this is January, lots of people are making New...
2013-01-08
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Ghost Cleanup process
I’ve been digging deeper into the Ghost Cleanup process recently, and quite naturally my quest lead to Paul Randal’s blog....
2012-12-17
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TSQL Tuesday #37 – Joins and Implicit Conversions
Here we are at TSQL Tuesday #37 – the start of the fourth year. Sebastian Meine (@sqlity / blog) is hosting this...
2012-12-11
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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...
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