The XML data type is not immutable
Immutability In many programming languages, strings of text are immutable, meaning they don’t change. When you modify a string, a new string is created in memory by copying the...
2019-12-04
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Introduction to the performance features on SQL Server on Linux
I’ve been tinkering with SQL Server on Linux lately and noted a few things in regards to performance I thought I would share with you. SQL Server 2019 on...
2019-12-04
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Better, faster, cheaper: SQL Server on Azure IaaS
GigaOm, an independent research firm that I highly respect, released a study today comparing performance and price between a SQL Server VM on Microsoft’s Azure platform and a SQL...
2019-12-19 (first published: 2019-12-04)
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Troubleshooting Resource Semaphore and Memory Grants
Memory grants, now here’s a fun thing that can pretty much take your SQL Server to its knees. The Symptoms The first thing that you’re going to notice is...
2019-12-03
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T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
It is December again. 2019 has gone by in a flash. I have the honor of hosting the last TSQL Tuesday blog party of the year. This monthly blog...
2019-12-03
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Azure SQL vs Azure Table Storage
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A year ago I built an app to keep track of pickup volleyball game scores and payments. It works well, but after a year...
2019-12-03
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Azure SQL vs Azure Table Storage
Watch this week's video on YouTube
A year ago I built an app to keep track of pickup volleyball game scores and payments. It works well, but after a year...
2019-12-03
16 reads
Azure SQL vs Azure Table Storage
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. A year ago I built an app to keep track of pickup volleyball game scores and payments. It works well, but after a...
2019-12-03
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Inspector V2.00 now available
The SQL Installation file can be found here.The new Powershell installer can be found here.If you are running the powershell collection you will need to grab the latest revision.The...
2019-12-03
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Installing Redgate SQL Toolbelt with Chocolatey (video with transcript)
Chocolatey is a package manager that helps you install, upgrade, and uninstall packages (applications) on Windows quickly and easily from the command line. Spoilers: The command I show in...
2019-12-02
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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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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