Slides & Samples for my SQLbits session
As announced in both of my sessions, you can download the slides & samples for
my SQLbits sessions here:
Message
in a Bottle: Service...
2011-04-11
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Hostettler the Viking Needs a New Ship and Your Help
Hostettler the Viking Needs a New Ship…And Your Help.
My good friend Justin Hostettler Davies (Blog@DBExpertise) pinged me a mail in...
2011-04-11
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 11
For Day 11, I want to talk about the new processor numbering system for Xeon processors that Intel introduced on...
2011-04-11
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Limit Results Based on Aggregated Threshold
Problem
A post was recently added to one of the forums that I monitor so that I can help users in...
2011-04-11
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 10
Wow, we are 1/3 of the way through this series! Today’s post is “Classic Intel Xeon Processor Numbering Explained”. By...
2011-04-10
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SQLBits 8 – That’s a Wrap
This weekend saw the 8th SQLBits conference take place amidst glorious British sunshine by the sea in Brighton.
For those unable...
2011-04-10
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Powershell Day 10
Day 10 Working with Directory and Registry As you know, Powershell works with command prompt, and you know it works...
2011-04-10
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So, what’s this heap thing?
G’day,
I’ve been asked a few times lately to explain what a heap is.
I’m quite happy to do this, but I...
2011-04-10
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Shrinking the log file script for SQL server database
AdvertisementsShrinking the log file script for SQL server database
This script mainly for a DBA’s, because most of the time...
2011-04-10
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 9
For Day 9 of my SQL Server hardware series, I want to give my current recommended AMD Processor List for...
2011-04-10
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Blogs
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...
A Guatemalan's Guide to Drinking Coffee Properly
My mugI grew up surrounded by coffee farms in Guatemala and somehow spent most...
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