SQL Server and VMware Resource Pools
Resource pools are used to hierarchically partition available CPU and memory resources, and are available for use at the VMware host cluster layer. To better prioritize certain VMs over...
2020-04-06
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What Prevents You From Securing Your Servers?
Reading about how hackers are using SQL Server instances that are exposed on the internet AND have weak passwords to work into systems, I’m sitting here wondering why. I...
2020-04-06
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Daily Coping 6 Apr 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-04-06
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#PowershellBasics: Using environment variables ($env:ProgramFiles)
The other day Kendra Little (blog|twitter) mentioned that she was trying to get a command in Powershell working. Specifically one ... Continue reading
2020-04-13 (first published: 2020-04-06)
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Learning Postgres:Installation
I had the opportunity of working on a project converting a postgres database to a sql server based one at work. I used this opportunity to learn more of...
2020-04-13 (first published: 2020-04-06)
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Transforming JSON data with the help of Azure Data Factory - Part 3
(2020-Apr-06) Traditionally I would use data flows in Azure Data Factory (ADF) to flatten (transform) incoming JSON data for further processing. Recently I've found a very simple but very effective...
2020-04-14 (first published: 2020-04-06)
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COVID-19 - Work & Life Changes, How We're Coping
Settle in folks, this is a long, rambling post.
As this goes live, it’s been about three weeks since my abrupt switch from driving to the office every day to...
2020-04-06
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Disks performance in Azure
In our earliest post, we have discussed in detail about the factors that affect the disk performance and different types of disk offerings in the AWS platform. In this...
2020-04-05
17 reads
Disks performance in Azure
In our earliest post, we have discussed in detail about the factors that affect the disk performance and different types of disk offerings in the AWS platform. In this...
2020-04-14 (first published: 2020-04-05)
1,964 reads
A Smattering of Thoughts About Applying Site Reliability Engineering principles
What's This about
I figured I'd go ahead and take this article which I've gutted several times and share some thoughts, even if it's not an authority on the topic....
2020-04-15 (first published: 2020-04-05)
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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
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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