Back from the MVP Summit
Back home after three days in Seattle at the 2011 MVP Summit. As I wrote in an editorial this week,...
2011-03-04
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March PASSMN Meeting Announced
Come one, come all to the March PASSMN meeting – that’s the Minnesota SQL Server User Group. This month we’re going...
2011-03-04
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Presenting in West Palm Beach on March 22, 2011
I’m pleased to be joining the West Palm Beach .Net group on March 22 to do a presentation on SQL...
2011-03-04
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The Power And Pain of Process–Part 1
Part of why I love IT is finding patterns and creating new ones. Patterns by themselves are interesting, but when...
2011-03-04
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Resource database
Today learned new thing about Resource database, as everybody knows resource database is the system database introduced in sql server...
2011-03-04
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Jump on the SQLExpress – Useful info, ways to schedule and run maintenance jobs
Jump on the SQLExpress – Useful info, ways to schedule and run maintenance jobs
Sometimes, folks come to me, and ask for...
2011-03-04
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Re-purpose my TableSize Script
Last Year I introduced a couple of scripts that I worked on. Those scripts developed into a series covering the comparison of some methods and MS provided stored procs...
2011-03-03
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Re-purpose my TableSize Script
Last Year I introduced a couple of scripts that I worked on. Those scripts developed into a series covering the...
2011-03-03
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Differences between Merge and Union All transformations in SSIS
What are the differences between Merge and Union All transformations in SSIS ?
The first and most obvious difference is that Merge...
2011-03-03
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SSRS – Creating and Using Shared Schedules Part 3
In my two previous blogs in this series, I discussed shared schedules and walked you through step by step instructions...
2011-03-03
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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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Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option
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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