Microsoft Certification Exams: Costs are Increasing
It was announced yesterday that the cost of taking a Microsoft exam will increase from the 1 July. In the...
2011-04-27
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Daily Denali Delight – Day 5
Code-named Denali – the next version of SQL Server is fast approaching.
And whenever CTP2 gets released you can be sure to...
2011-04-27
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The developer / DBA relationship.
G’day,
A large part of my job involves liaising with developers. I spent the first 8 years of my IT career working as...
2011-04-27
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Transforming SSIS' sysssislog Entries Into Something More Readable
The format of sysssislog in SSIS 2005 and 2008 isn't great for human consumption, so what follows is an attempt to reformat it for easier digestion. It isn't perfect...
2011-04-26
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Transforming SSIS' sysssislog Entries Into Something More Readable
The format of sysssislog in SSIS 2005 and 2008 isn't great for human consumption, so what follows is an attempt to reformat it for easier digestion. It isn't perfect...
2011-04-26
7 reads
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 26
For Day 26 of this series, I want to talk a little about laptop processor selection (since I get a...
2011-04-26
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Powershell Day 26
Day 26 Generate script Generate script for sql server objects is very simple, there are different ways we can generate...
2011-04-26
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Transforming SSIS' sysssislog Entries Into Something More Readable
The format of sysssislog in SSIS 2005 and 2008 isn't great for human consumption, so what follows is an attempt...
2011-04-26
1,948 reads
MS Certs Exam price is rising ...
Today Marlon Ribunal twittes come with new info about MS Certifications exams are rising...
This is not a good news, so...
2011-04-26
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SQL University: Who has access to my SQL Server?
Welcome to PowerShell Week #2 for SQL University! One of the frequent questions I hear is, "Who has access to...
2011-04-26
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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...
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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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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