Presenting at SQL Rally
I received notification earlier this week that my session “ETL Head-To-Head: T-SQL vs. SSIS” was selected by community vote for...
2011-02-10
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31 Days of SSIS Conclusion
31 Days of SSIS
Last month, I published the 31 Days of SSIS blog series. As a conclusion to that series,...
2011-02-10
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Pragmatically Yours - Day 1, Guidance
This next week I’m launching a series of posts centered around how you could be a part of the leading...
2011-02-10
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SQL Server MVP Daily Paper
A while back, I started a twitterlist of SQL Server MVPs. I wasn’t really sure why, but I just thought...
2011-02-10
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Corporate Culture
One of the things I enjoy about work is seeing the various cultures that evolve. Some companies are rigid, some...
2011-02-10
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SQL University: SQL Server Security Architecture - Home-grown, No Options!?!
Thanks for hanging in there for Day 4 of Security Week here at SQL University. Today we're going to look at the...
2011-02-10
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Why You Should Attend SQL Saturday #70 - Columbia, SC
Free training. Excellent speakers. Outstanding location. Great networking opportunities. Experienced and efficient event staff. These are the primary things you...
2011-02-10
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SQL Rally: The Votes Have Been Tallied
First and foremost, I would like to send a sincere thank you to everyone who voted for my Reporting Services...
2011-02-10
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Presentations: Slides and Demos
Over the past couple of weeks I have given several presentations. At each presentation I have promised to post the...
2011-02-09
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Feb 2011 S3OLV Meeting
I am getting this out extremely late. I seriously have good excuses for that. Due to my location and Charley feeling ill, we will be doing the S3OLV UG...
2011-02-09
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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...
Forums
Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option
I have a table that ends in ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]. I'm about to...
OUTER APPLY Fundamentals: Part 2
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Building Great Software
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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