Behold, SSIS Advanced Editor for Data Source Components
It's not everyday that one of your information vendors decides to change the format of its data feed. Evidently, today...
2010-12-16
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Notes from the December 2010 OPASS Meeting
Our December meeting was a time for a lot of changes:
New location, the Hampton Inn in Lake Mary. It’s further...
2010-12-16
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Powershell, Me and the MCM
If you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft has made some significant changes to the MCM program. The changes make the certification more accessible to the masses. You can read more...
2010-12-16
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Powershell, Me and the MCM
If you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft has made some significant changes to the MCM program. The changes make the certification...
2010-12-16
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Select * from dbo.FAIL: invalid metadata in views and user defined functions
This week a question on the Twitter #sqlhelp hash tag reminded me of a detail of SQL Server that I...
2010-12-16
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1.5 Years in, U.K. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, Delivers on the Data Protection Act
A year after the Telegraph reported that Information Commissioner Graham would pledge a fierce approach to the stonewalling approach of...
2010-12-16
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Giving Thanks
I often say I am where I am in the community because of other folks. As we approach the close...
2010-12-16
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SQL Server Storage Internals Part 2 - Partitions and Allocation Units
Before moving on to see anatomy of different types of pages, lets spend some time to understand
The relationship among sys.objects,...
2010-12-16
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Insert_Identity Permissions
Despite my joking with Aaron Bertrand on Twitter that his suggestion on Connect got voted down because he’s Canadian, I...
2010-12-16
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Number of sessions per database
Sometimes when we need to do some maintenance on a SQL server, you need to verify which users are connected...
2010-12-16
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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