Home Theater Upgrades
Back in late 2003, I had my basement finished,and as part of that effort, I put in a dedicated home...
2010-09-20
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SSIS: Assign a value to Variable using Dataflow Script task
I am not quite sure how many of you have tried to set or change the value of a variable...
2010-09-19
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SQLSaturday #50 Report
I attended my first SQLSaturday yesterday in Iowa City, Iowa. I spoke on two topics: “What’s New with Reporting Services”...
2010-09-19
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SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Diagnostic Information Queries
Here is the latest version of my Diagnostic Information Queries for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2. These...
2010-09-18
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Are Your Backups Really Safe?
This editorial was originally published in the Simple-Talk newsletter.
Imagine for a moment if you will. As a DBA, and as...
2010-09-18
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SELECT: If ON preceeds JOIN, then how….
I got some excellent questions from my 24HOP session yesterday, and when presenting the same session at NTSSUG last night. ...
2010-09-17
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CakeWrecks
Recently I had a student point me to CakeWrecks, a blog about good cakes gone bad.The post from today has...
2010-09-17
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MDX Aggregate Named Set Than Others
In this quick post I wanted to provide some code that's been useful to me recently. This MDX statement creates...
2010-09-17
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SQL Saturday #52 in Denver
Its only about a week until SQL Saturday #52 in Denver. This is an all day, free event, being held...
2010-09-17
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StreamInsight sample from my 24HOP session
As announced in my StreamInsight session at 24HOP you can download the session material
from here.
Within the next weeks I will...
2010-09-17
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Blogs
Excellent article on securing msdb
By Brian Kelley
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's...
T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many...
When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than...
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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