April Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Queries
I have added two new queries to this month’s version, to try to collect some more hardware information about the...
2011-04-11
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T-SQL Tuesday Reminder – Coming next week
Matt Velic is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month. You have a week to get a post ready on the apply...
2011-04-11
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SSIS Job Ownership
I was strolling along one day when I saw somebody asking how to find out who owns a maintenance plan. That evolved into finding out who owns the the...
2011-04-11
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SSIS Job Ownership
I was strolling along one day when I saw somebody asking how to find out who owns a maintenance plan....
2011-04-11
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If you truly want to understand something try and change it.
I saw this quote on facebook last week and it really hit close to home. I had just started working...
2011-04-11
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April PASSMN Meeting (April 19)
Every career, whether on purpose or accident, is a journey from one job or project to another. To achieve great...
2011-04-11
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#SqlBits and SSIS custom components
If you are in anyway interested in SQL Server and live in the UK, you cant of failed to of...
2011-04-11
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Cloud computing – not without risk?
Interesting quote from Sharepoint Best Practices Conference :” 17% of IT Pros think benefits of cloud computing outweigh the risks”!!
That’s not...
2011-04-11
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SQLBits Attendance Breaks Previous Records
How many people can you identify in the above photo from the closing party at SQLBits? Can you find Ola...
2011-04-11
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Powershell Day 11
Day 11 COM and WMI Powershell is a very powerful language, with Powershell we can achieve same result with the...
2011-04-11
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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