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2020-01-29
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What is a strong password anyway?
Background Fellow Microsoft MVP Troy Hunt (blog | Twitter) has been operating the website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) for a number of years now. For the record, “pwned” is...
2020-01-29
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Sorting in Stored Procedures – Food for Thought
We know that sorting can be one of the most expensive things in an execution plan as shown below. However, we continue to do ORDER BYs repeatedly. Yes, I...
2020-01-29
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Insperation
Inspiration: The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative. a person or ... Continue reading
2020-01-29
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Trace Query in Extended Events
The ability to quickly and easily trace a query is important to database professionals. This script provides one useful alternative to trace a specific spid similar to the method...
2020-01-28
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Trace Query in Extended Events
The ability to quickly and easily trace a query is important to database professionals. This script provides one useful alternative to trace a specific spid similar to the method...
2020-01-28
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Using Erik Darling’s sp_pressure_detector to resolve CPU issues
Last Friday I spent my lunch break going through some links I had marked for future reading. One of them was a post earlier this month by Erik Darling...
2020-01-28
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Using Erik Darling’s sp_pressure_detector to resolve CPU issues
Last Friday I spent my lunch break going through some links I had marked for future reading. One of them was a post earlier this month by Erik Darling...
2020-02-13 (first published: 2020-01-28)
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How to Resolve Remove-AzKeyVaultKey : Operation returned an invalid status code ‘Forbidden’ Error
I’ve come across another error message in my seemingly never-ending battle with Azure Key Vault. A while back I couldn’t delete a resource group because of Key Vault soft-delete....
2020-01-28
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How to Resolve Remove-AzKeyVaultKey : Operation returned an invalid status code ‘Forbidden’ Error
I’ve come across another error message in my seemingly never-ending battle with Azure Key Vault. A while back I couldn’t delete a resource group because of Key Vault soft-delete....
2020-01-28
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Blogs
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...
A Guatemalan's Guide to Drinking Coffee Properly
My mugI grew up surrounded by coffee farms in Guatemala and somehow spent most...
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Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option
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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