To TOP or not to TOP an EXISTS
Earlier this year I had a look at a query pattern that I often see on forums and in production...
2011-04-05
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How to Deal with Quebec’s Extremists – Report their Threats to the Police (Investigation Under Way)
I’m part of a Committee that is dedicated to eliminating discriminatory legislation in Quebec, here’s a statement we released last...
2011-04-05
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Canada Begins Return to Democracy as the ‘Harper Government’ Found in Contempt of Parliament, a First Throughout the Commonwealth – And No Confidence Vote Triggers the Election Race
For over a week now, Canada has begun its return to appearing to be a democracy thanks to a Liberal...
2011-04-05
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Am I a sysadmin? (or other SQL Server role)
How do you check if you are a sysadmin? It’s fairly easy to do in Management Studio. You can go...
2011-04-05
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SQL Rally Schedule
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SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse - Under the Hood
Brian Mitchell
The Dirty Dozen: PowerShell Scripts for the...
2011-04-05
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SQL Validation Functions - 4 Cool UDF's to have handy
Everyone knows that in SQL 2000, yes 2000, Microsoft jumped aboard the bandwagon of other platforms, and gave the developers...
2011-04-05
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Should a DBA be involved in the physical set up of a Database server? Part1
There is always some disconnect between the network admins and the DBA’s regarding hardware set up of a SQL Server....
2011-04-05
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Powershell Day 5
Day 5 Programming in Powershell Part 3 Now as you know all information, in this blog we will look for...
2011-04-05
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SQL Server Role Membership
How well do you know the security in your SQL instances? Do you know who has sysadmin level permissions? SQL Server provides a few methods for you to find...
2011-04-05
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SQL Server Role Membership
How well do you know the security in your SQL instances? Do you know who has sysadmin level permissions? SQL...
2011-04-05
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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...
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OUTER APPLY Fundamentals: Part 2
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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