Delimiting Results
Recently, I came across the need to delimit some data in order to be able to test some procedures that...
2011-03-01
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Attending 2011 MVP Summit in Bellevue/Redmond, WA – Great Face-time with Fellow Speakers/Writers/Bloggers
The raincoast weather could be a little better, but so far, I am very happy with the brain-filling load of...
2011-03-01
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Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta on March 5
I will be attending and speaking at the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta in downtown Denver on March 5, 2011. This...
2011-03-01
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SQLDIY: Alert On Blocking Chains
Continuing the SQLDIY monitoring project we will take a look at tracking blocking events. I actually received a request to...
2011-03-01
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Firefox and NTLM Authentication
By default Firefox doesn’t pass through NT credentials, not a big deal when you’re browsing Amazon by a big pain...
2011-03-01
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March Question: What’s Your Biggest SQL Server Performance Headache?
As DBAs, we have all received a phone call from a database user, asking why the database is so slow....
2011-03-01
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2011 MVP Summit – Day 1
I’m glad I went running this morning. It’s been a long day, in and out of sessions and meetings all...
2011-03-01
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How to Get a Head Start on Performance Tuning
The problem with performance tuning is that it is commonly considered as secondary to the task at hand rather than...
2011-03-01
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SSRS – Creating and Using Shared Schedules – Part 1
As you will see by the dates in my screenshots, I wrote them quite a while back while touring the...
2011-02-28
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Don’t Be Afraid of Windows Failover Clustering!
One of the more exciting features in SQL Server code-named “Denali” (which is the current official name for the next...
2011-02-28
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Blogs
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Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option
I have a table that ends in ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]. I'm about to...
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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