SQLSat 83 – Johannesburg
Awesome news. I submitted a presentation for SQLSat 83 in Johannesburg South Africa for May 7, 2011. I saw that they were opening up the presentation schedule a little...
2011-04-28
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SQLSat 83 – Johannesburg
Awesome news. I submitted a presentation for SQLSat 83 in Johannesburg South Africa for May 7, 2011. I saw that...
2011-04-28
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3 Days Remaining Before The Next SQLRally Price Increase
If you've been considering registering for the first ever SQLRally May 11-13 in Orlando it's coming down to crunch time....
2011-04-28
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Drop the Noise
I’m reading Tim Ferriss’ “The Four Hour Work Week” (FHWW) right now, and it’s got me thinking about (among other...
2011-04-28
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DBA relationships – The data custodian
G’day,
As DBA’s, we all know how to manage security, some are more advanced that others but ensuring that the right...
2011-04-28
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Have You Heard? You Can Get a Mentor
Steve Jones and Andy Warren are at it again. The founders of SQLServerCentral, SQLShare, and SQLSaturday have started a new program, The Mentoring Experiment, to try to match professionals...
2011-04-28
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SQL University: SQL Azure & PowerShell
Welcome once more to the Miskatonic branch of SQL University. I see that most off you survived out last encounter…...
2011-04-28
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How to determine the current SSIS runtime environment
If you want to test if you’re currently debugging an SSIS package via BIDS/Visual Studio, or running normally via DTExec,...
2011-04-28
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Powershell Day 28
Day 27 SQL Policy I highly recommand to go through the Policy –based management (BCM)’s official excellent site to learn...
2011-04-28
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Have You Heard? You Can Get a Mentor
Steve Jones and Andy Warren are at it again. The founders of SQLServerCentral, SQLShare, and SQLSaturday have started a new...
2011-04-28
710 reads
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