CLR Strict Security in SQL 2017
SQL Server 2017 has enhanced the security requirements for using CLRs. Read on to see what I ran into, and how I was able to get CLRs to work!
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2019-01-21
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A Discussion of SQL Server-Related Topics
T-SQL Tuesday #110 – Automate All the Things
Automate All the Things
I had a strange thing happen to me this week. My IFTTT applet that sends me an...
2019-01-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #110 – Automate All the Things
From a DBA's perspective, automation is something that is absolutely necessary. This post shows just a few areas where I use automation in my life.
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2019-01-08
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TSQL-Tuesday #109 – Influence Somebody
Influence Somebody
Ahh, December. What a wonderful time. Snow all around (many along the eastern seaboard of the United States were...
2018-12-12
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TSQL-Tuesday #109 – Influence Somebody
Influence Somebody Ahh, December. What a wonderful time. Snow all around (many along the eastern seaboard of the United States were hit Sunday by a snowstorm… I had 7?...
2018-12-12
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Advent of Code 2018 – Day 6 (Chronal Coordinates)
Next, Advent of Code 2018 – Day 6
As I explained in a recent post, I’m participating in this year’s Advent of...
2018-12-07
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Advent of Code 2018 – Day 6 (Chronal Coordinates)
Next, Advent of Code 2018 – Day 6 As I explained in a recent post, I’m participating in this year’s Advent of Code challenge, with the twist of doing...
2018-12-07
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Advent of Code 2018 – Day 3 (Slicing)
Advent of Code 2018 – Day 3
As I explained in a recent post, I’m participating in this year’s Advent of Code...
2018-12-06
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Advent of Code 2018 – Day 3 (Slicing)
A T-SQL approach to solving the 2018 “Advent of Code” programming challenge. This solution includes a physical tally table.
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2018-12-06
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Advent of Code 2018 – Day 5 (Alchemical Reduction)
Advent of Code 2018 – Day 5
As I explained in a recent post, I’m participating in this year’s Advent of Code...
2018-12-05
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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...
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