Brief Intro to Indexes and INCLUDE – TSQL Tuesday #10!
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This blog was originally posted on December 17, 2009. I’ve pulled it out of the closet for...
2010-09-14
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PASS Election Ends Tomorrow (Sep 15, 2010)
If you haven’t voted I hope you will. Ballots were sent out via email to those members eligible to vote....
2010-09-14
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Failing Fast
I’ll have a longer post next week about my own risk strategy, but I wanted to write this first, both...
2010-09-14
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September OPASS Meeting Tonight!
Live Meeting: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=NQ65ZG&role=attend
Mini-Session
Topic: Using PIVOT – Going from Static to Dynamic
Sometimes data normalization results in a data structure that is not convenient for...
2010-09-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #10 - Indexes
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, the brainchild of Adam Machanic (Blog|Twitter), and this month’s topic is Indexes. A thanks...
2010-09-14
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Task Manager - Don't Believe the System Idle Process Percentage
This morning my laptop went to a crawl. I looked, and sure enough, there was an AntiVirus scan running. Argh!...
2010-09-14
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The SQLSaturday Squirrel
A bit of mid week humor. Recently I met up with Jack Corbett to review our room options for SQLSaturday...
2010-09-14
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Common SQL Server Mistakes - Shrinking Databases
I don’t like there being an easy command to shrink databases, and I especially don’t like seeing the shrink option...
2010-09-14
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SQL Bloggers – Build Your Brand And Sponsor SQLSaturday #49
As you may know we like to try new stuff here in Orlando, and this is another new thing. I’ve...
2010-09-13
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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...
Forums
Return all intermediate members of a recursive CTE?
I wrote a recursive CTE to determine employee levels... but what if I wanted...
jdbc auth failing to sql from sap's cloud middleware CPI
hi , our business partner is asking s4 sap api's for receivable info and...
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
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