Upcoming Events
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May
SQLRally in...
2011-04-08
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Presenting Dr. DMV by Live Meeting on April 19 at 12PM CDT
I will be presenting my Dr. DMV presentation for the St. Louis SQL Server User’s Group on April 19. Here...
2011-04-07
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 7
For Day 7 of this series, I will talk about the incredibly useful CPU-Z utility, which is available for free...
2011-04-07
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S3OLV April Change
Earlier this week I announced the meeting for the Las Vegas User Group. I blasted some of you with emails – along with people in our mailing list. Those...
2011-04-07
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S3OLV April Change
Earlier this week I announced the meeting for the Las Vegas User Group. I blasted some of you with emails...
2011-04-07
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Me Me Me, Event Event Event
Dear Readers,
Today’s blog shall be entirely stream-of-consciousness, which is to say, I don’t know exactly what I’m going to talk...
2011-04-07
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SQL Saturday #70
This blog is long overdue about my journey to Columbia SC for SQL Saturday #70. I was very fortunate to...
2011-04-07
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Should a DBA be involved in the physical set up of a Database Server? Part 3
This series of blog is to give a general idea what you could look at when setting up a new...
2011-04-07
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I Got Registered!
I’m going to SQL Rally! Are you going to SQL Rally? Have you heard of SQL Rally?
What’s SQL Rally?
I’m glad...
2011-04-07
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SnapManager Epic Fail – oh dear!
An ex colleague and good friend of mine has recently been having trouble with Snapmanager for SQL, anyone had similar...
2011-04-07
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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