Writing Better Emails
In January 2009, I made the transition back to being a senior DBA. One of the first things my manager...
2011-05-04
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How do you create or update stored procedures.
G’day,
Running object creation scripts into other environments is a big part of most DBA’s work – especially when a new system...
2011-05-04
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May 2011 S3OLV Meeting
After a whirlwind of last minute changes last month, we expect stability this month with the monthly meeting. Meeting Time is 6:30PM PST Erika Bakse (blog | twitter) has...
2011-05-03
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May 2011 S3OLV Meeting
After a whirlwind of last minute changes last month, we expect stability this month with the monthly meeting.
Meeting Time is...
2011-05-03
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T-SQL Tuesday #18 Coming Next Week
Other than the week I hosted it, I’ve been caught off guard by T-SQL Tuesday most months. This time I...
2011-05-03
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Indexing for ORs
All of the indexing strategy posts I’ve written in the past have been concerned with predicates combined with ANDs. That’s...
2011-05-03
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How often do you check email?
If you read the experts, most folks check their emails too many times during the day. Today, while giving a...
2011-05-03
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Iterating Over Columns in the SSIS Script Component
Just recently a question was posed in the MSDN SSIS Forums about how to create a "generic" script component that would read all columns for each row passed through...
2011-05-03
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Iterating Over Columns in the SSIS Script Component
Just recently a question was posed in the MSDN SSIS Forums about how to create a "generic" script component that would read all columns for each row passed through...
2011-05-03
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Calling all UK Bloggers…
Amazingly It’s been just over 4 months since I started my list of UK based SQL Server bloggers, and I...
2011-05-03
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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