Checkpoints and the Lazy writer
Hi,
Both the lazy writer process and a checkpoint both push in-memory pages out to disk, however that’s where the similarity ends.
The reason...
2011-05-02
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Series Recap
Writing a month long series is always a lot more work than you initially expect. You would think that I...
2011-05-01
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May Question: What’s Your Backup Strategy?
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2011-05-01
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 30
For Day 30 of this series, (which is the last day), I am going to talk a little about RAID,...
2011-05-01
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 29
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2011-04-30
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Download: Powershell a Day -April 2011
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2011-04-30
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Powershell Day 30
Day 30 Best Practice Having good Security is first best practice for any language no exception with Powershell. Having that...
2011-04-30
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Seize the Moment
Today I had a bit of regret slap me in the face. That face slap came from participation in a SQL Quiz on twitter that was hosted by Paul...
2011-04-29
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Seize the Moment
Today I had a bit of regret slap me in the face. That face slap came from participation in a...
2011-04-29
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SQL Saturday 74 Is Here! Register Now! Show Up Tomorrow!
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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