SQL Azure Diagnostic Tool
One of the CSS Engineers from Microsoft has released a diagnostic tool for SQL Azure. It’s worth a look. It’s...
2011-04-26
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Daily Denali Delight – Day 4
Code-named Denali – the next version of SQL Server is fast approaching.
And whenever CTP2 gets released you can be sure to...
2011-04-26
975 reads
A SQL Experiment – Mentoring
News Flash The SQL Community is about to get stronger. Why? There is a great new initiative that was recently launched. Steve Jones and Andy Warren are teaming up...
2011-04-26
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A SQL Experiment – Mentoring
News Flash
The SQL Community is about to get stronger. Why? There is a great new initiative that was recently launched....
2011-04-26
801 reads
Replication Monitor – Friendly Names
You may have noticed when you setup a merge pull subscription using the
New Subscription Wizard in SSMS that you...
2011-04-26
1,400 reads
Search Stored Procedure Text
There will come a day, if it has not already come and gone, when you will want to search through...
2011-04-26
1,077 reads
Stop Asking and Start Making Decisions Today
Ever have one of those days where no matter how hard you try you just can’t seem to make any...
2011-04-25
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 25
For Day 25 of this series, I want to talk about how you go about picking a CPU for your...
2011-04-25
547 reads
Why Build a Brand?
Why should you go to the trouble to start blogging, speaking, answering questions or anything else. What’s the point?
I’ve written...
2011-04-25
1,334 reads
Enjoy Your Life
A sad weekend, and shocking news Sunday morning. I was out running errands when I checked email and found out...
2011-04-25
1,592 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