SQL Server and Docker Compose
I used to think that Docker Compose was used solely to spin up multiple containers, in fact I blogged about doing just that here. That opinion changed when I...
2020-07-27 (first published: 2020-07-17)
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Everything I Never Wanted to Know About Collation (14 minute video/podcast episode)
I'm not an expert on collation in SQL Server, but there are a few important facts which I've had to learn the hard way.
In this episode I share...
2020-07-27 (first published: 2020-07-16)
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Do More, With Less
Next week, July 22 and 23, I’ll be presenting at Redgate Summit. Summt is our smaller, focused sessions. This one is about the concept of how DevOps, or, more...
2020-07-16
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Daily Coping 16 Jul 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-07-16
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Comparing SSIS and Azure Data Factory
For the better part of 15 years, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been the go-to enterprise extract-transform-load (ETL) tool for shops running on Microsoft SQL Server. More recently,...
2020-07-28 (first published: 2020-07-16)
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COMING SOON - New Content
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Hey everyone. Long time no chat. I wanted to write this quick post to let you know why there haven't been any videos in...
2020-07-16
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COMING SOON - New Content
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Hey everyone. Long time no chat. I wanted to write this quick post to let you know why there haven't been any videos in...
2020-07-16
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COMING SOON – New Content
Hey everyone. Long time no chat. I wanted to write this quick post to let you know why there haven’t been any videos in a while. If you are...
2020-07-16
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MAXDOP: not quite what you think
An important change to the MAXDOP documentation was made last week, with a good write up by Pedro Lopes (Twitter), a Program Manager on the SQL Server team at...
2020-07-15
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Daily Coping 15 Jul 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-07-15
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Blogs
Excellent article on securing msdb
By Brian Kelley
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's...
T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many...
When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than...
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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