Speaking at Colorado Springs SQL Server User’s Group on June 15
I will be speaking at the Colorado Springs SQL Server User’s Group, live and in person, on Wednesday, June 15,...
2011-05-09
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Pragmatic Tools Week: BIxPress
Much like Tim “The Toolman” Taylor had his themed weeks, we’re going to do something similar. This week we salute:...
2011-05-09
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Sql Saturday #83
Frikkie Bosch opened the day with a short keynote giving an overview of Denali, talking mostly from a marketing point...
2011-05-09
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A quicker way than using count(*)
A quick little tip I found a couple of years ago. Ever use the count(*) syntax and it takes forever...
2011-05-09
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SQLRally Orlando Begins This Week!
It actually starts tomorrow for me (and many of you), I’ll be at the Marriott World Center around 1 pm...
2011-05-09
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SQL Azure Migration Wizard
There’s a project over on code plex to come up with a mechanism for validating databases and generating the necessary...
2011-05-09
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SSC Editorial: Running as SysAdmin
My editorial about Running as Sysadmin ran in the SQLServerCentral newsletter yesterday and generated some good (and passionate!) responses. It’s...
2011-05-09
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PASSMN May Meeting
If you are going to be visiting Minnesota on May 17th or are there on more permanent basis, you can...
2011-05-09
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Minnesota SQL Server Study Group
Study Time!
A few weeks back, I sent a message on the PASSMN LinkedIn group page about expanding the MCM study...
2011-05-09
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Catalog view or compatibility view?
G’day,
The recommended way to access SQL SERVER metadata is through the catalog views.
The challenge is to be able to distinguish...
2011-05-08
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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