TPC-E Benchmark Analysis by CPU Type
As an experiment, I decided to import the current official TPC-E results spreadsheet into a SQL Server 2008 R2 database,...
2011-01-01
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31 Days of SSIS – Raw Files Are Awesome (1/31)
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m writing 31 Days of SSIS. Let’s start off this series with a...
2011-01-01
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January Question: As a DBA, how do you manage your disk space?
Managing disk space is an important responsibility of the DBA, and there are many ways to perform this task. In...
2011-01-01
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31 Days of SSIS – The Introduction
31 Days of SSIS
Last year, Glenn Berry (Blog | @GlennAlanBerry) wrote a series of posts that he called A DMV A...
2011-01-01
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Re-Awarded MVP for 2011
I received my notice that I was renewed as a MIcrosoft MVP for SQL Server for 2011. It's a nice...
2011-01-01
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MVP Award for 2011
I just received notification from the Microsoft MVP Award Program that I’ve received the MVP award for SQL Server for...
2011-01-01
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Easy CDC part 2: Automating a Quick Initial Load, and Some Gotchas
Introduction
A couple of weeks ago I made this post about quickly building a CDC system against a vendor ERP database....
2011-01-01
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2010 Goals Review
I started the year with 10 Goals for 2010 and now I'll end it by looking at how many of...
2010-12-31
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – Substring() Function
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
Within the...
2010-12-31
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Happy New Year
Well it’s Friday again and another big day.
Hopefully you all had a great Christmas and as we move to...
2010-12-31
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My Social Media Rules
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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