A small facet of information
G’day,
I’ve blogged about facets before, but I just thought that I’d mention them again, as they came in quite handy...
2011-04-24
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 24
For Day 24 of this series, I want to talk a little bit about the TPC-E OLTP benchmark.
The TPC...
2011-04-24
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 23
For Day 23 of this series, I want to talk a little about some things to consider as you make...
2011-04-24
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Powershell Day 24
Day 24 Performance Monitor Sql Performance: ? performance counters sys.dm_os_performance_counters ? Top ten queries from sys.dm_exec_query_stats and sys.dm_exec_sql_text ? Processor: sys.dm_os_schedulers ?Memory : sys.dm_os_memory_clerks...
2011-04-24
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Gartner BI Magic Quadrant 2011
It’s often true that “a picture is worth a thousands words” but sometimes a picture can be such an effectively...
2011-04-23
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Announcing the fifth certification study session
The Denver SQL Server User Group is starting another round for the certification study group. Last year we ran three...
2011-04-23
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Announcing the fourth certification study session
The Denver SQL Server User Group is starting another round for the certification study group. Last year we ran three...
2011-04-23
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Welcome to SQLREPL
Hi everyone. Welcome to my new blog. I’m still in the building stages here so things may seem a little...
2011-04-23
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 22
For Day 22 of this series, I want to talk a little about 32-bit vs. 64-bit hardware, and the related...
2011-04-23
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PowerShell Tip – Custom windows for different tasks.
G’day
There seems to be a lot of articles around at the moment concerning the use of PowerShell.
I think this is...
2011-04-22
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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