A New Year, Time To Get My Learn On!
My friend, and newly minted MVP, Jen McCown (blog|twitter) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month. I normally don’t do the...
2011-01-11
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Quietly Professional
The conventional wisdom tends to hold that you should trumpet your accomplishments to your boss, though in a way that...
2011-01-11
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TSQL Tuesday: Resolutions
Sounds like a good action adventure movie. The theme this month on TSQL Tuesday, thanks to our host, Jen McCown...
2011-01-11
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T-SQL Tuesday 14: Resolutions #TSQL2sDay
Time for the first T-SQL Tuesday of 2011. This month Jen McCown (Blog | @midnightdba) is hosting the event. The topic...
2011-01-11
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Rich Embedded Text Formatting in Reports
I’ve recently come to realize what a truly remarkable feature it is to be able to
format report text using simple...
2011-01-11
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MCM Live Blog – Week January 10
Watching videos?! Su-ure!
Week five and it seems like time is going by faster than I had expected it would. As...
2011-01-11
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T-SQL Tuesday: Resolutions
In my invitation to T-SQL Tuesday #014, I picked the topic “Resolutions”, clearly to play on the new year. The...
2011-01-11
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January 2011 S3OLV
Tis the calm before the storm. At least it feels like that. The invites have all been sent. The presenter lined up. Reminders have been sent and now we...
2011-01-11
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January 2011 S3OLV
Tis the calm before the storm. At least it feels like that. The invites have all been sent. The presenter...
2011-01-11
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Making It Right
Last week Jonathan Kehayias (Blog|Twitter) used his blog to publicly call out Thomas LaRock (Blog|Twitter). I am not going to...
2011-01-11
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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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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